NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3714, 19 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, January 15,

The authorities of Glasgow are likely to proceed against John Burns for advising the strikers to put a little more devil into the fight. Free sailors shipping on board the Aorangi and Merkara have been brutally assaulted by the pickets.

The violence of the railway strikers is increasing. Tampering with the points, attacks on free laborers, and attempts to wreck trains are frequent.

The English Railway Companies urge the Northern Companies to resist, fearing that a surrender on their part wll entail a strike on the English lines. The certificate of the captain of the t.s. Nepaul, which was wrecked in Plymouth Sound, has been suspended. The Cape loan of four and three quarter millions has been subscribed at an average of £9B 8s 2d. j For the Melbourne Tramway Company's loan of £280,00.0 at 4& per cent., with a minimum of £IOO Bs, £236,000 was subscribed at an average of £lO9 9s lOd. Mr O'Brien's newspaper states that arrangements arc being made for Mr Parnell's abdication. London, January 16. The fund for the relief ot distressed families iu Ireland now amounts to £25,090. Captain Patrick Healey Hutchison, commander of Speedwell, who.

was seized with an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs after a dinner given by the Duke of Edinburgh, has recovered.

Two gasometers at Glasgow exploded, causing considerable dannje to surrounding property. It is expected that the Admiralty dockyard at Sydney will be enlarged, and that Captain H. St Clair will be appointed first superintendent. Tho Duke of Bedford, whoso death was announced recently, left instructions that his body should be burnt in a private crematory whioh he had built at Woking, in Surrey. Sir F. D. Bell is making arrangements to shortly convert the remainder of the old high priced New Zealand loans.

The Times states that the absence of a syndicate enabled the investors to obtain the Cape loan at a cheaper price than they otherwise would.

FOREIGN. Valpabaiso, January 15. The Chilian rebel fleet are blockading the Port of Iquique. January 16. The President is accused of committing unconstitutional acts, The rebels are now assembling at Entreros, Washington, January 25 The Free Coinage Bill introduced by a private member in the Senate has been fixing the uuit wilue of the dollar at grains of silver. Washington, January 16. The Indians who submitted have agreed to give up their arms on General Miles promising that they will be better treated by the United States Government in future. Altogether 4000 have surrendered. Seven 'thousand others are surrounded by the troops.

It is considered certain that the I House of Representatives will reject I the Free Coinage Bill passed by the Senate, or it will be vetoed by [President Harrison, j Pekin, January 16. ( The extreme claims of the Chinese in points of etiquette have prevented »he Czarewitch from making his intruded visit to China. Algiers, January 16, Severe earthquakes have occurred here, and 50 houses were destroyed. \ AUSTRALIAN-

! Sydney, January 16. tjleavy rains continue in the interior, The Culgoa Eiver is coming down heavily, and a great flood is expected. All the rivers are rising. Adelaide, January 16.

The ship Avilie has arrived from Rio Janeiro with two cases of confluent smallpox on board. Another patient ii sickening for it. Melbourne, January 17.

I The police report on the working olf the Prison Gate Brigada of the Salvation Army contains some curi- ' OU3 revelation*. It is alleged that the Brigade clothe and feed criminals who at night are engaged in crime.

Frozen Moat ' Some light is thrown npon the :recent cable message as to the exclusion of frozen meat from Imperial army contracts by the following extract from n Home correspondent's letter: —A deputation jipon which Messrs Nelson and Moll wraith represented the Australian [pastoral interests, and Mr Birkett the meat industry of Smithfield, waited on Mr E. Stanhope, Minister for War, to enlist his support in the removal of the departmental order excluding frozen beef from acceptance in army contracts. A private circular from the War Office had asserted that the meat lost its juices in the process of cooking, and that it liad a flavor of tallow. Messrs Nelson and M'llwraith, who were introduced by Mr Archer, AgentGeneral for Queensland, stated, in reply to the objections, that the beef was perfectly jjood, and of excellent flavor, if cooked in the frozen state. The matters of which complaint was made were due to thawing out the meat before cooking. Besides, the deputation urged, it was unfair to the I colony to give preference to American chilled beef over its frozen product, the frozen beet being of equal merit. Mr Stanhope declined to gire any pledge to the deputation, but said he would give the most careful attention to the representations made to him. The right lion, gentleman referred to the question later on in addressing a meeting of farmers at Spilsby, Lincolnshire. He told his audience that with regard to beef, they had to look for a Btrong competition from the large quantity of frozen meat brought into England. As a means of helping the English farmer, he declared himself to be in favor of discriminating the Queensland article from the English product by labelling it."