CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 30 April 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. • The engineers have lost by the strike wages to the amount of £180,---000. The total loss to the district is estimated at £500,000. Mr McCarthy, President of the Dockers Union, in a letter to the Times, states that the riverside labourers are worse off than they have been for twenty years, and that 15,000 men are idle in the East End. It is alleged that some of the London 'bus men are working 100 hours per week for 2Jd per hour. Six hundred steamers are laying idle at ports between tb.3 H umber and the Tyne. The total value of the vessels is estimated at seven millions, and the cause to which it is attributed is the Durham strike. The Unionists have decided to hold a demonstration on the 17th June in Belfast, and up to the present 30,---000 have intimated their intention of being present Lord Salisbury has instructed the British Consul in St. Petersburg to prevent the emigration of Jews to England. The Hon Patrick Greville Nugent, charged with serious assault on Miss Marion Price in a first class railway carriage on the London and Brighton line, has been committed for trial. Ten thousand domestic servants? are out of employment in London. The Glasgow shipowners are reducing the wages of seamen and firemen by 10s per month. The lock-out of cotton weavers will probably become universal, in order to destroy the levy made to assist those already out. The engineers who have been on gtrike for some time, but have intimated that they would return on the master's terms, have resumed work.