CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4397, 19 April 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

LoNDOK,:ApriI ;: i7.;;:A The London dockers have deferred Btriking in support of their, Hullcomradeß, pending the conference of trades unions throughout the .country, -which will bo held to-night.; ; A ; A/ 'AV\AA Tho owners of shipping tli.rit they are thoroughly prepared;:-■. ■';.A^:; The majority of'tho-'-newspapers discourage the strikers, on the ground that their action is untimely;-'A-;AA

Tho shipowners asseiUhat.-thpyare v beseiged by non-Unionista. -v...; [ Mr J. H, Wilson, M.P.Vassetts'tlia't B it will be impossible,,!*) replace; the' a Unionists if a general strike occurs.: % j Mr John Burns, Misinformed 0 the leaders of the men ; thaVhe : : wpi).ld j assist thorn to fight. '£",;s. '£■&,. d Mr Ben. Tillott told them the forces t of tho capitalists had improved since r. 1889, and it would requiroHmore r science to defeat t The strike is less harmiul.~tb.4ho j ship-owners at the present limb than \ it would have been at other times, , owing to the dullnossof trade.''.';': **... t The distress in the,. East' End.:, is ' above the average. ■.)■■■■■&; \ The Unions are short of funds, and , the leaders generally, witlvthe oxce'p- s tion of a fow of the more;.noisy, fear j that they will be unable to organise i simultaneous action.' ';vv yrtBrussels, April "17.;,;.; j The Socialists assaulted.thii.Mayor., of .He was | rescMUSy thepolice,'. >*??#£■■«■ | A Mimy shots were fired''during''the | riot. ■ i ATHENs;:ApviI 17. .'■■. | A most severe earthquake has been | experienced in Zante, ; ; ono of tho , lonian Islands, and the town of Zanto ] baa been almost entirely destroyed., i , Many persons were killed; #■ v\ ?;< \ Washington,"; April 17. '"- The Republic of Ecuador hasceded to the United States a coaling station , in Galapagos Equator. ' ■ ' \ Melbourne; April 17..;.) In tho action Parker against Joseph Clarke, a claim . of £IO,OOO damages for. malicious prosecution, defendant denied jhat he had any part in the woman's.abduction, but admitted that.he'had lent two pounds to the man who had informed him that ho had taken her away. Tho money was given merely as an act of charity. Clarke also admitted that he had paid Mrs Parker's husband iIOOO in consideration of cot attaching him as a co-rospondont in the divorce proceedings!.. Tho jury returned a verdict for £1250, with costs. ,V JL London, Apiil 17.;. S';C«b IMy denies that the colonies um been recklessly lavish, and flays that land speculation _is a natural fault, but the present diffioflN ties will have v salutary effect. It would be impose. N lo to permanently injure the credit oi the colonics. ■'■>■ Adbuue, April 17. ■: The Hon, W. B. Eounsevillo, the Colonial Treasurer, defeated Mr Playford. Mr Cookburn has been returned, Bo far eight Labour candidates have been elected. Many of the Labour candidates who have been returned at the general election received heavy majorities. So far they are looked upon at moderate •'"/.• meDr •' ■■ ■'J / Brisbane, April 18. ; i / 1 Mr H. M. kelson, Colonial Trea- \ jurer, has been returned unopposed.