BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5670, 17 January 1890, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

LONDON, Jan. 16 The Dookors' Union contend that increased wages iii the eastern ports will prevent a diversion in the shipping trade. The laborers in woolstoros meet on Wednesday with the object of securing an abolition of what is known as tho " exertion " system, under which one man in each gang is paid extra to rush the work. Unless the men succeed in attaining their object a strike is probable. The gas strike has come to an end, the funds being exhausted. Princess Maud is suffering from influenza. Mr Herbert Gladstone has recovered from his recent indisposition. Mr Park, editor of the North London j Press, charged with criminal libel for connecting Lord Euston with the West End scandals, has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The witnesses failed to identify Lord Euston as an habitue of the house in which the alleged offences were committed. Colonel Malleson, the well known author, has been cast in LIOOO damages as co-respondent in the Idiary divorce case. ZANZIBAR, Jan. 16. Emm Bey has suffered a relapse, and a serious discharge is flowing from his ear The medical attendants propose that the patient should undergo an operation. (Received January 17, 12 15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Thirty thousand children are down with influenza in Chicago.