CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Issue 7059, 19 July 1901, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LASCARS ON OCEAN STEAMERS.

Sydney. July 18. The employment of Lascars on board the steamer Omrah does not necessarily mean that this praotice will be generally followed throughout the Orient Line's fleet.

The Omrah belongs to the Naval Eeserve, and ia compelled to carry a minimum numbor of British sailors. The company was unable to get tho requisite number to take the vessel to sea, and Scandinavians were engaged, but this was objected to. Lascars, who are British subjects, were therefore engaged. If white British sailora are not more amenable' to discipline, it is likely that Lascars will take :iheir place aboard ocean-going ships, ';■ .""' :\ THE IRONWORKERS' STRIKE. •■■-■/. ; London, July 17. _ -Che New York correspondent of The Times states that nineteen thousand skilled and forty thousand unskilled workmen in the iron trade are out on strike. . The public press does not sympathise with the strikers, considering that they are bent on controlling the entire body of labourers employed by the steel companies. I SUICIDE OF ACTRESSES. Ida Yeoland, who was' Evelyn Mili lard's understudy in "The Adventures of Lady Ursula," and Edith Yeoland, a member of the company playing " Sweet Nell of Old Drury," have committed suioide by poison owing to disappointments in reference to an American engagement. :