CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4393, 14 April 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, April 12,

The Daily Telegraph states that within a month the Unionists in Ulster expeot to havo 150,000 men enrolled and armed with rifles, ' Mr Davitt, speakiog in the House of Commons on the Homo Rulo Bill, said the Irish would accept the measure in order to obtain peace.

The Irish Unionist Alliance has issued a manifesto urging the Unions ists in the South and West of Ireland to register their names on the electoral rolls, with a view to electing a representative council.

The Central Chamber of Agriculto to approved a proposal to enforce ffi labelling of imported meat, firomen at Cardiff publicly buijaJ tickets issued by the BhippTngwperotion. They also dc cided to boycott all vessels on whioh men are paid less than the Union rate of wages.

The Shipping Federation has passed a resolution to the effect that while ceasing to parley with the Union leaders, they are willing to employ any men who accept tho free labour ticket. Mr J. Wilson, Labour M.P., is urging tho Cardiff seamen and firemen to strike, so as to draw tho Shipping Federation's men from Hull,

One hundred and fifty minors havo been rescued from the Great Western Colliery at Pontypridd. Fifty are trill entombed. The timber headings ■are still ablaze, Five bodies have ■been recovered.

All hopo is abandoned of saving the -remainder of tho men entombed at Pontypridd, Tho explosion was caused by sparks from the pit engine igniting tho gas in tho mine

Mr Wilson, the expert, reports on an experimental shipment of fruit .from Victoria that the pears and igrapes were unsuitable, and arrived injy&ten condition. He advises that it|[ii useless to send tomatoes, Tho passion fruit was also rotten, and the apples were only a partial success, Yienka, April 12, Sixteen deaths from cholera are reported in Galicia, Bmsbane, April 18, The Flood Relief Fund has reached £61,000,