YESTERDAY'S CABLES British and Foreign.

Southland Times, Issue 11670, 26 February 1891, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S CABLES British and Foreign.

LONDON, Feu. 24. The Maritime Unions fear that a general strike wiil be forced on them. The} 1 allege that the Shipping Federation is not insisting on the.iibsolute employment of free labourers, though upwards of a thousand are working in London on the Federation ticket. Tlw Government has agreed to appoint a Commission to inquire and report as to the relations between employers and employed. Lord George Hamilton, Firs ' Lord of the Admiralty, is discussing witli his dopurtmental colleagues the report of the senior officer, who is now in Singapore, on the cases ol the executive and petty officers and leading seamen concerned in the alleged I muliny on board H.M.S. Egeria. R"plyiug to a question iv the House of Commons, Sir James Fergusson, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, stated with reference to the operations in the Soudan that thore was no intention on the part of the forces to advance beyond Tokar, as the Sheikhs were submitting, and a settlement was probable. A ci isis is again threatened in financial circles in the city in connection with South American stocks. Roberts, the champion billiard player, gives I'eall 12,000 out of 24,000 (spot barred) for LSUO a -side. Mr Parnell, speaking at Longford, Ireland, declared that if events compelled Irishmen to face British bayonets, he himself would take the lead. ST. PKTKKSDURG, Feu. 24. Prince BartinietF has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for the murder of a young actress. MOZAMBIQUE, Fkk. 24. A portion of the material of the first section of the Portuguese expedition into the interior has been severely damaged by storms.