SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 2952, 16 October 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS.

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(PER PHEBB ASSOCfVIIi) .)

LONDON, October 15.

John Bnrnet, labor correspondent of tbe Board of Trade, reports tbat the demand for skilled labor is steadily decreasing at at Home in respect to the chief industries* Eighty-six strikes took place during August and 64 in September.

The Parliamentary Committee of tbe Trades Congress is framing a bill requiring assent of a two-thirds majority to enforce recognition of tbe prinoiple of eight boors a. day.

David Christie Murray, tbe novelist, has been adjudged bankrupt. It is rumored that General Sir Evelyn Wood succeeds General Sir F. Boberts as Commander -in-Chief in India.

Believing that tbe leaders of tbe Dockers' Unions have no real control over tbe dockers, tbe Riverri&o employers are organising a system of giving a certain number of men permanent employment at 24s per week, working eight hours a day, with pensions, thus doing away with casual bands. Four-fifths of the men already ecployed at tbe docks are per* manent hands.

Gutteridge, a Badical, will oppose a son of W. H. Smith fox the Strand seat.

For the Newcastle (N.S.W.) Municipal Loan of £74fi00, at four per cent, only .£6OOO bas been tendered. Tbe loan will remain open lor a week.

Carnival from Newcastle (K.S.W.J is posted at Lloyd's as missing.

A survivor from the vzaek of a cattle steamer oft the banks of fiewfboadland declares that forty-tiro war* drowned. It is alleged that the ofaaexs and enw wen drunk, hot tbe whole stoij a dosbted.

The Irish Leagoa off GreaS Britain urges the Trich peo^Se to fiew *ftw» isshogs ana priests to refine fans poB&R.

Mr. Stanhope, See—Uß^ ise War, speakiag at Spxfe£ej< dsgfiansl Me G_3Etone's reddees egfirwraray to ~EgssL The troops, howetcc, waaSJ — »**« _g>n till their m_wm was aeearapfiflhei. The gale continues to nga with gnat violence. The harbor, exte&skra works at Dover have been destroyed. Inland many bouses and trees have been injatsd by tbe force of the visd, snfi the rirers are overflowing their Hanks.

The crank shaft of the Ptarnmatt&'a frozen meat chamber bas broken dowtt' in the Bed Sea, and it is feared all tbe mutton on board most have been destroyed. The Times considers the result of the harvest as heartbreaking. BOME, Oetobar 15.

The Italian papers »swrt that the Premier showed De Giere the text of the Triple Alliance, in order to convince him the terms are all in favor of peace.

The trial of sixty anarchists has begun in Borne. There an 825 witnesses, and thirty-five counsel are engaged. PARIS, October 15.

One Paris house alone has received tenders sufficient to cover the whole Knssian loan, and it is expected tbe amount will be covered several times over. ST. PETEBSBUBG, October 15. Bussia will probably prohibit tbe ex. port of oats. - Troops are being massed in tbe famine districts to keep order. NEW YORK, October 16. John Devoy, editor of the Irish World, expresses sympathy with Parnell, and deolares that the interference of tbe prieata in Irish politics must be stopped. WASHINGTON, October 14.

A Melbourne rainmaker has contracted to water North-east Kansas in the spring for a dollar per aore. .

President Harrison gives a reception to members of tbe Methodist Congress.