British and Foreign.

Southland Times, Issue 11672, 28 February 1891, Page 2

British and Foreign.

[United Press Association — By Electric TkLECKAPII — CoPYKHiIIT.] i LONDON, Feb. _7. Received 2Sth, 12.50 a.m. J The Lord Chancellor is preparing the judgment in the Ah Toy case. ' Mr \V. H. Smith, in replying to a question by -Mr jobb, M.l', for Rugby, said that the Government had no knowledge of dissatisfaction having b -en expressed with any of the j:id^s Oil the (^U'-eu's U-.'nch, and Mr Cobb : must give the name of the judge complained i of. ; The wool sales closed firmly. As com- j pared with the December sales better grades of merino and line crossbreds were tive per cent, dearer, and inferior grades live per cent, lower. Received 28th, 1.10 a.m. The Antwerp wool sales have been fixed i for March 10th to l.'Jth. Nine thousand tive hundred bales have beeu catalogued, 500 of which are Australian. Fitzgerald, the Australian labor delegate, has an article in the Nineteenth Century traversing most of Mr Champion's article. He declares that the recent strike was justifiable and was carried out in a peaceable way. The next election, he says, will convert the labour question into the Moscow of the capitalista The Waterside Unions are willing to remove the block in London and renew their offers of compromise on the last terms proposed on condition that the Shipping Federation displaces free labourers and re-engages their old hands. The prospects of a settlement are stated to be hopeful.