CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 274, 24 May 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

-■■-«- — (BY Ef.BOTBIO TMJSGWPH— COPYRIGHT.] [PER PAEKB ASSOCIATION.] STRIKE COLLAPSED. New York, May 23. The Longshoremen's strike at New York has collapsed. STRIKE ON THE RAND. Pretoria, April 23. The strike on the Rand has become general, comprising the white miners of forty-three mines. Some' of the managers have warned the strikers that they will not be reinstated. THE JENA DISASTER. London, May 23. As a result of the enquiry into the disaster of the French battleship Jena a new system of ventilation is ordered to be installed in the magazines of all British warships. This utilises carbonic acid gas to keep the temperature below 70 degrees. K CRICKET BOWLING FEAT. Middlesex defeated Somerset by 166 on the occasion of A. E. Trott's benefit. Trott captured 7 wickets for 20, took four wickets with successive balk), and afterwards repeated the hat trick. HOME RULE. Mr T. O'Connor, addressing the members of the Irish League of Great Britain at the Mansion House, Dublin, said the decision of the Convention imposed on the British organisation new and enlarged duties and might impose some change of policy. Owing to the badness of the Bill, the unwise counsels given to Government by officials in Ireland, the divisions of opinion among members of Government, and their profound and apparently invincible ignorance as to the real sentiment of Ireland, the struggle must be recommenced, and be stronger and stern, and more energetic than ever. The action of the Convention need not retard for a single hour the erection of a great assembly to maka laws for Ireland on Irish soil. EIGHT HOURS IN MINES. The report presented by the Parliamentary Committee appointed under the chairmanship of Mr Russell Rea, member for Scarborough, to inquire as to the probable economic effect of the adoption of an eight hours' day in mines, states that there are various causes calculated to mitigate the effects of reduction of hours, instancing the extended use of laboursaving machinery ,but it anticipates some diminution in production. Thus reductions would vary greatly, and be most serious in Lancashire and South Wales. The report adds that it is impossible to foretell the permanent effect on wages and employment.