CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2752, 4 March 1890, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(by electric telegraph.— copyright.) London, February 28. Fifteen hundred workmen at Hornby have struck, demanding an increase of two shillings per week.

•'he Times states that the Berlin Labour Conference is identical with thra Berne Conference, lately abandoned, and as " thin and colourless," and it falls far short of the promises made by the Emperor William. At a meeting of Durham and Northumberland miners resolutions were carried rejecting State compulsion of eight hours labour. In the linel action, Sir Morell McKenzie v. Steinkotf, for alleging that plaintiff conspired to deny that the disease from which the late Emperor Frederick of Germany suffered was cancer, £1500 damages has been awarded. Sir Morell also recovered a suir: of £150 from the rimes for publishing the sta ement. Influenza has broken out at Norfolk and in Devon, and is spreading rapidly. Many of the cases are of a most severe type, and numb rs of schools have been closed in consequence. Mr H. M. Stanley is expected to reach here between the 15 th and 20th Manh. Washington, March I. It is believed that the duty imposed on wool by America will gradually stop the importation of that article. Parleying over the B-hring Sea and Canadian Fisheries dispute is proceeding favourably here. .St. Petersburg M-iroh 1. Russia is arranging for the establishment of a Balkanic League, c unprising Kussia, Montenegro, Servia, and Greece. Bi:rhn, Fehrua y 2S The Labour Conference will bo confined to delimiting the work hours for women and children.