NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3921, 24 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. (United Press Association). London, September 22. The Hannah Landels, from Noumea, was caught in two hurricanes near Cape Horn, in which six of the crew were injured. The deckhouses and two boats were washed over board. It is reported that H.M.S. Benbow, one of the Mediterranean Squadron, has been ordered to Chatham, owing to defects in her 111 ton guns. Mr Denny, co-proprietor in Denny and Shedlock's gaseoug process for j the treatment of refractory low grade ores, proceeds to Australia shortly with six complete plants. The dockers threaten to bring oil a general riverside strike unless their demands are conceded. The Durham miners are seeking to have the eight hours rule brought into force in the more firmly established pits. Speaking at Cambridge, Mr J. Morley accused Sir Michael Hicks Beach of throwing dust in the eyes of the electors when he implied that the agricultural labourers in England were better fed, clothed and lodged than those in America aad Australia. Mr Morley contendod that in the latter places men had soma hope for the future, and he expressed the opinion that the adoption of a legal eight hours system would thrust a ramrod into the delicate and complex machinery of British industry. The Ujjjeufcened strike of Victoria dockecyfor an increase of a penny per Wour has been averted. JJflie Foreign Legations iu Chili Confirm the news of Balmaceda's suicide.