LATE CABLES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5892, 25 July 1890, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

(PEE PBEB3 ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHT.I (Received July 25, 1 p.m.) SEAMEN'S PROPOSED NATIONAL STRIKE. London, July 24. _ In oonnection with the National Seamen's Union's proposed strike it is intended as a first step to stop work at the ports on the north-east coast unless the Danish steamer* aro refused admission. STEAMER BURNT AT SEA. The Atlantic liner Egypt has been burnt at sea. All hands were saved, but six hundred cattle were burnt. OBITUARY. Mr Bevan, banker. EIGHT HOURS QUESTION. The Times, in writing of the debate between Mr Hyndman and Mr Bradlaagh, M.P., on tho eight hours question, says the general verdict is Mr Hyndman failed signally to meet Mr Bradlaugh's objections. ESTATES COMPANY. The applications for shares in the Estates Company will close on Monday. The Titties says Mr HeaaJa valuation as to the nett inoome shout® remove the doubts felt respecting the revenue to bo derived from the properties in the globo estates. Tho Financial News says tho debentures are well secured. MINING EXHIBITION. Lord Thurlow opens tho Mining Exhibition on Monday. DOCKERS' STRIKE. Two thousand men havo struok work at the London and Catherine dooks owing to the employment of non-union labor. THE CHEMICAL RING. The papeimakera aro combining against the chemical ring. WOOL SALES. The wool sales closed with a quieter feeling but equal to May rates. Merino wool is dearer. Continental buyers purchased 140,000 bales, English buyers 150,000 bales, and the American buyers 1000 bales, while 10,000 bales have been held over. GERMAN-COLONIAL COMPANY. Seven hundred members of the GormanColonial Company have ceased to subscribe. SERVIA. Servia threatens a rupture in her relations with Turkey unless the Porte makes reparation for the Servian consul who was murdered at Pristina. BEHRING'S SEA. The correspondence between England aud the United States as to Behring's Sea has been published, and it shows that Mr Blame's action in connection with tho Canadian sealers savored of piracy, and Lord Salisbury's action in receding from the termß of convention as they were almost arranged, merely in the defence of Canada, was a grave injustice to the United States.