SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGE

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4460, 29 August 1889, Page 3

SPECIAL CABLE MESSAGE

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(Special to Press Association.) Bfceived Avijusl 23, at 8 p.m. London, August 27. The has 32,000 and the Fifeahlre 25,000 carcases of sheep on board. It ii feared tba 1 . the latter'a cargo will be destroyed unless coal can be obtained to keep the refrigerating machinery at work, bat the Kaikonra'sis ontof danger for the present. The strike is expected to extend to the provinces. At Southampton men are already assuming a threatening attitude, and the regular despatch cf Australian malls is Imperilled. It is suspected the Socialists are planning a national labor revolt. Forty thousand rentß in the Eait End of London were not paid on Monday, and the landlords are powerless to obtain their money. The gas men have threatened to Btrike and leave London In darkness, fcut they have been warned they will be held criminally liable unless a week's notice haß been given. Lightermen, coalmen, firemen, engineer?, porters, jam and biscuit makers, carters, and postal carmen are now all on strike. Received Avgvsl 28, at 5.15 p.m. San Francisco, August- 27. The charge Bgair.se Judge Fiald of complicity in the shooting of Terry by Deputy-Marshall Nagle has been dismissed. Beeeived August 29, at 1 a.m. London, August 28. Dr MTjawrin, of Sydney, 1s preparing a paper on the "British race in Australia" for the next meeting of the British Association for the Advancement cf Science. Kilrain, the pugilist has been released on ball. Scavengers, milkmen, printing laborers, and 7000 ironworkers have joined the strikers. The Government have conceded the postal carmen's demands.