Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 10 September 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON. Mr Burns had an interview today with the Lord Mayor, Cardinal Manning, Bishop Temple, Sir John Lubbock, M.P. and Lord Brassey at the Mansion House, when he agreed that the strikers should resume, work at t ! e old rate of wages, pr - viding that the Book Companies conceded that the demands of the strikers should take effect from and after January first. " Jhe strikers' committee has refused to ratify Burns' acceptance of the Lord Mayor's proposal. It is repotted that a mutiny has taken place onboard H.MS. Acorn, now lying at San Francisco, and that the.c has been many desertions. FOREIGN. A cartridge factory at Antwerp exploded today. Two hundred workmen were lulled, and one hundred wounded. Several petroleum factories adjoining caught fire, and a hundred thousand barrels of petroleum were burnt. The River Schelde was covered with burning petroleum, but fortunately the wind was blowing in a direction that left the shipping untouched. Two hundred factory girls are either killed or seriously injured. The general damage to the Port of Antwerp and the city, includes the Bourse, is most extensive. It is feared that the steeple of the cathedral is injured, and every window in Antwerp is broken. All the crane machinery in connection with the fort lies in ruins. A block of buildings covering a space of two acres has been destroyed by the fire which ocourred after the petroleum explosion.