CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4390, 11 April 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, April 9. Reinforcements of police are to be sent to Belfast,

Mr Balfour, speaking at Dublin, said Ulster, as a last resort, could fight the South, which would be helpless.

Messrs WilsDn and Sons aro still despatching steamers from Hull, despite the opposition of the Unionists, The Unionists at Grimsby have undertaken to boycott vessels from Hull.

The Seamen's Union intend to fight the Shipping Federation at every possible point. Hull is quiet. The shipping trade at Hull is entirely, suspended, All tho dockers, seamen, and firemen have struck, The Unionists attacked tho hands engaged in unloading the steamers, but were repulsed at the point of the bayonet. • Mr Wilson, the member for Middlesborough, is trying to induce the Home Secretary to disarm the Unionists,

The Naval authorities have been asked to send gunboats to' Hull to protect the shipping interests, Mr J. H. Wilson, member for Middlesborough, addressing a meeting in connection with the Hull strike said it was a glorious chance to set tho seamen, dockers, and minors aflame,

Mr Wilson, the shipowner, has declined to dismiss tho non-Unionists, saying he would prefer to remove his vessels from the port. MrO. H, Wilsorr, M,P. for Hull West, and his brother (whose name was brought into prominence in the famous Tranby Croft Bacoarat caße), are tho largest private shipowners in the world, and two of the riohestmen in Great Britain, In Hull their influence is enormous.

MrJ.H.-Wilßon.M.P.fcrJDaaia. lorough, is one of tlio labour members, who. spent 15 years of his life at sea, It was h« who in 1887 established in the face of great difficulties, the National Amalgamated Bailors* and Firemen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland, which has a membership of 80,000, and »reputed income of £2OOO a week,