HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8372, 27 September 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph..— THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND. London, September 25. Mr. Jackson, financial Secretary to the Treasury, who has been on a visit of inspection to Ireland, considers the effect of the potato blight has been overrated. THE BROKEN HILL MINES. London, September 25. Mr. Knox, secretary of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, expects shortly to be in a position to unofficially offer 60,000 shares in Loudon, in order to create a market, and secure quotations on the Stc'k Exchange. STRIKE AT THE VICTORIA DOCKS. London, September 25. A thousand labourers have struck at the Victoria Docks, claiming extra pay for handling special cargo. THE IRISH DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. London, September 25. Mr. Davitt, in a series of articles in the Labour World, asserts that he is prepared to prove that James MacDer* mott, of Brooklyn, in 1883, with money supplied by the British Consul-General at New York and Dublin Castle, organised dynamite plots in Canada, Cork, and Liverpool, and afterwards handed over his dupes, Featherstone, Deasy, and others, to the British police. THE RATES OF FREIGHT. London, September 25. Messrs. Maclean Bros, propose that the merchants should combine to stop the war of rates, and prevent depreciation of stocks. The suggestion is receiving much support. Tyser's action is said to have caused dissensions in the shipping ring, which may possibly result in its disruption. STRIKE IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, September 25. An extensive strike of colliers has taken place at Ostrau, Mahrisch. FOREIGN LABOUR IN ENGLAND. London, September 26. The riverside unions have federated, with the intention of opposing the importation of foreign labourers into England. Opposition is being shown to the employment of Germans from Hamburg at Southampton. The dockers hold a conference on the subject oil Tuesday. THE IRISH FENIANS. London, September 26. It is expected that some important revelations will be made in connection with Daly and other imprisoned Fenians. LONDON COMMERCIAL. London, September 25. The bank rate of discount is 5 per cent. Frozen mutton has declined id, and beef id. Galvanized iron, Gospel Oak, is £17. SHIPPING. London, September 25. Arrived : Barque Hudson, from Oamaru (June 14).