BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5906, 27 October 1890, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

[By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Per Press Association.) (Received October 27, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is paying a visit to the districts which are affected with the potato \ blight. At each of the districts yet at- i tendod he has been well received. A fresh summons has been issued against Mr Henry Harrison, M.P. for Mid-Tipperary, for rioting. Father Humphreys has applied for a summons against Mr Balfour, but was refused it. It is announced that the marriage of the Marquis of Hiirtington with the Dowager Duchess of Manchester will be celebrated at Easter. Messrs Dillon and O'Brien have sailed from Havre for New York. Mr Lewis, the wheat expert, estimates that the British wheat crop will be nine and three million quarter, and that the country will require to import 18 million quarters. The Hyde Shippers' Association decline to discuss the wholesale laying up of their vessels. The dock committee offer free laborers fair wages with pensions, and will engage laborers without the intervention of middlemen. They propose a renewal of piece work at Albert and Victoria docks. Countess Jersey, who has been suffering from typhoid fever, is progressing fairly. The Earl of Jersey will not leave for Sydney until his wife has recovered. Ocfc. 26. Mr Gladstone, in addressing a meeting at Dalkeith, urged unification of the three Scotch churches, and stated he had left disestablishment to the decision of the people. He condemned the overruling of Scottish opinion as to the Westminster Confession of Faith by English members of the House of Commons. [specials to press association. 1 London, Oct. 23. At a meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Sir John Pender said that the colonies were certain to cooperate in an endeavor to establish a four shillings per word rate on the terms offered by the company, and that New Zealand was likely to join. Duncan, the editor of the Matrimonial News, against whom LIO,OOO damages were recently awarded in a breach of promise case, has been charged with fraudulent bankruptcy. The summons against Mr Harrison for taking part in the riots at Tipperary has been withdrawn. Counsel for the defendants have applied for a summons calling on Mr Balfour to produce an official report of the speeches of the accused, and to point out the portions on which a conviction is sought to be obtained. The Daily Chronicle hopes that Western Australia, now ife is entrusted with responsible government, will refrain from mortgaging tho future. A Portuguese battalion has been formed in Rio de Janiero, and has started for the Zambesi, Oct. 24. Mr J. D. Fitzgerald, the labor delegate, has arrived at Plymouth. He was met by Messrs Burns and Mann. The directors of St. Katherine Docks Co. have determined to prevent the unions supervising the tickets of unionists if any of the latter are employed after the 4th of November, the date' on which the company have intimated their intentention of employing free labor. It is probable that the directors of other dock companies will follow their example with regard to the employment of labor. A number of Irish navvies who had been engaged for Australia refused to start, and returned to Dublin penniless. Mr J. D. Fitzgerald is arranging to address the trades unions on the Australian labor difficulty. Mr Tom Mann declars that it would be easy to raise L 40,000 to assist the Australian strikers if the appeal were issued to all the trades, and that in the meantime they could borrow from the wealthy unions. Mr Burns, in a letter to the Daily Chronicle, asserts that the statement that the Australian strike has collapsed is without foundation. He also states that the dockowners are favorably dispesed towards unionists, and that no trouble with them is feared. Berlin, Oct. 23. The irritation caused in Germany at the passage of tho McKinley Tariff Bill in America is increasing, and it is hoped that England will co-operate with Germany in adopting a policy of retaliation.