CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4398, 20 April 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

7he Home Rule and Labor Moments.

London,' April 17, The Lord Mayor of Dublin presented at the. bar of. the. House of Commons apeutiori fragfe Corporation in favour of The Irish Unionists immediately prosented huge bundles of petitions against the Bill, These inoluded one signed by ten inembers of tho Dublin' Council. A bankruptcy notico has been served on Mr Davitt in connection with the expenses of the Meath eleotion petition.

It is believed that the division on the Becond reading of the Home Rule Bill will be a atriotly Party one, but somA'iSadical defeotions are expected in Committee over th« retention of the Irish members at Westminster. It is also believed that the Governmeht will make further ctfSessions to Ireland in connection witi^ance. Mr GosohenmadyMißfc %oh in the House of the motion for the second reading of the Bill, Ho strongly attacked the financial proposals contained in tho measure, and contended that Ireland would be unable to balance her Bud'get, .

Theßrifltol Channel tradeis blocked, Tho London seamen and firemen cease work to-morrow.

The leaders of the movement predict that a hundred thousand men will knook oft to-morrow.

Mr Burns, in tho House of ComDions, assorted that if early in tLo dispute he bad been permitted to meet the parties interested he could have settled the quarrel in five minutes. April 18, It is reported that the compromise suggested for the settlement of the strike includes a stipulation that Unionists shall work in harmony with iion-Unioniata, and that the control of the latter qhftll be transferred to the Board of Trade. Mr Burns con* veyed the terms of the compromise to a hundred delegates from the dookers last evening. The delegates enquired whether they mount peace or war. Mr Tillet sayß the men were never more determined, and a mighty demo»' oratio wave is beating against the citadel of greed, Mr J. H. Wilson, in tho House of Commons, acoused the shipowners of being allied with crimps, Mr Mundella HngJalflillo truth of the ' Mr Burns, who moved VJljoarn the debate, complained of military forces being sent to Hull, The Speaker ruled that the Houte was unable to discuss tho matter,.

Tho Marquiß of Salisbury will address an Ulster meeting on the lOtb of May.

London, April 18, J Quotations for Loudon Chartered i Bank of Australia shares closed at £8 , 10s yesterday. Sir J. F. Garriok, • who wua intervied with the full conourrenoe of the other members of the , Board of Directors, and the fall in tho i shares waß due to uneasiness owing to i the liability of the shareholders to • future calls. The Bank was amply i provided against all contingencies without trenching on the reserve; which consisted mainly of Consols. 1 Tho London shipowners bavo re« solved to maintain their right to I employ free labourers, and are propar- , ing to Becure provisions for 8000 men. i Mr 0. H. Wilson, M.P., the. shipowner, Mr Mundella, President of the 1 Board of Trade,, Mr Burns and Mr J. ■ | H, Wilaun, M.P/s, of the Seamen's 1 Union, have agreed to an armistico pending the submission of |Aforms of a settlement to Federation and tho jjpyiJfflKers, Meanwhile work will proceed in Lon« don. It i'b thought the strikers will ' ' accept the terms. The stevedores disapprove a general strike, and threaten that they willnot join in it, The owners state that in consequence of the slackness of trado they can easily carry on with one-fourth tho present number of men. The proposed basis of settlement of the present strike is the substitution for the Shipping Federation of a Labour Bureau independent of elili ployers and men, and under the control of this Board of l'he Shipping Federation decline to be a party to Mr Chas, Wilson, M.P., . shipowner, negotiating with the President of the Board of Trade in the present dispute, Mr Burns insists on the retention of tho Federation ticket, ' Brussels, April 17. There is increased ferment throughout Belguim, and desperate fighting has taken place at Mons and Antwerp, A number of tb&Civio Guardsmen were wounded. Several slsfets were killed and many . . ' " April 18. Various conflicts have taken placa between the Civio'-Quard and tho rioters at Mons, The troops charged themob, many ofwhom were wounded. The strikers retaliated With bricks, and the Guards then fired, killing five and wounding :many • more. A large number were arrested, and the orowd fled, taking their dead with them, fourteen of the Guards were wounded, some mortally. The Antwerp strikers are in sympathy with the agitation respecting the suffrage. They hid behind piles of wood in the dooks and sMtffthn"" gendarmes, who fired 'koiffLm jta# The Oivio Guards in thiscity called out.

The Belgian Government advocates manhood' suffrage, combined with ■ plural voting, and if the proposal is rejected the King must intervene, A Socialist roiter was arreßted at Jolimont with 17' dynamite cartridges in his possession. The Belgian strikers now number 00,000. Many have boen killed in the conflicts with the police and military, ■Work is at a standstill inOhar* leroi. The Premier has agreed to accept plural voting as the only means of appeasing the agitators. _ 18th April, . Pe strikers at Hons are maddened by the death of their comrades, and have swoto to avenge them, i ( V-