LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8764, 28 April 1890, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

By EUctrie Telegraph. — United Press Association Copyright — Received 2814190 — 3.3$ p.m.

STRIKE OP RAILWAY EMPLOYEES. London, April 2(5. Owing to the strike of the employees of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, inland traffic is completely paralysed. AUSTR4JUN CRICKETER* The Australian cricketers arrived today, all well. COLONIAL BOOK POST. On and after Ist May, colonial book post rates will be a penny per ounce. Mr Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, lias promised the Agents-General to forward written copies of the proposed reductions to all Governments concerned. L \BOUR DEMONSTRATION. All the European Powers, with the exception of Hungary, have declined to allow their employees to take part in the labor demonstration on May Ist. BPLIT AMONG LONDON WORKMEN. Owing to a split among the London workmen it is now estimated that the attendance at tho meeting in Hyde Park on May 4th will be mxder 100,000. WOOL SALE. At the wool salerf to-day crossbreds and best greasy merinos were slightly in buyers' favor. All other sorts were from lid to 2d below the prices realised at the February *ales. CCSAN PENNY PORT. Mr Cecil Raikes, the PostmasterGeneral, referred to Mr Henniker Heaton as a fly on a wheel, and seeking for notoriety in connection with a popular cry, and added that his (Mr Heaton's) foolish agitation for a further reduction of the postal rates to one penny would prevent the colonies' accepting Chancellor Goschen's present proposals. LABOUR DEMONSTBATION. A procession, comprising the members of eighty trades in London, will parade the Victoria Embankment on May 4th. Their manifesto demands that the Government and the local governing bodies shall adopt the eight hours system. ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOB CHILDREN. Lon-dox, April 27.

The London School Board have decided to furnish the schools under their managements with pianos.

I'BUSTEES LIABILITY BILL

The Trustees Liability Bill has l.2en privately circulated among th« AgentsGeneral.

ST^IKS OP RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

The strike of the Great Southern and Western Railway employee.*- in Ireland has delayed the transmission of the American mails. Mr Davitt advises the men to moderate their demands, and he has consented to interview the directors of the company on their behalf.

SLAVERY AT SAMt»A.

In the House of Commons, yesterday, Sir Thomas Esmonde declared that the Germans at Samoa winked at the system of slavery there, which was carried ca even worse than in Africa. He thought the English rule would be best for the natives, and he hoped it would be ext3nded to the unoccupied islands in the Pacific. He demands that the Government should declare its policy, and cease to play second fiddle to Germany,

DDO D'ORLEANS. Paris, April 26.

President Carnot, it is stated, has offered the Due d' Orleans his liberty upon certain conditions.

ANARCHISTS ltf PaBIS.

The anarchists of Paris have assumed a threatening attitude. EIQHT HOURS LiB'JDBIN GERMANY Beklin April 26.

The Socialists have presented to the Reichstag a petitition, bearing three million signatures, urging that the eight hours system be adopted throughout the German Empire,

SOCIALISM.

The Protestant and Roman Catholic bishops of Prussia have appealed to the clergy to repress Socialism.

LABOUR UUEsrION IS GKRV4KY.

Germany remains neutral in the eight houre' labour demonstration, but will protect the workers against any action of the non-workers.

EiilN BEX'S EXPEDITION. Zanzibar, April 26.

The expedition under command of Emm Paslia has started for Lake Tanganadjika.

BOSSA LIBEL CASE

New York, April 2G.

During the procedure of his trial for libel on Thursday, O'Donovan Bossa declared that anything was justifiable to secure relief from the British yoke. CHICAGO CARPENTERS' BTIUKE.

Chicago, April 20.

The carpenters on strike have appealed to the English and German tradesmen to desist from supplanting them.

THE ORONIN MURDER.

WoodrulTe. the waggoner, who confessed to complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, and implicated Alexander Sullivan, head of the National League in America, who, he alleged, .shadowed the murdered man, ha? been discharged from custody. He ha:> made a coz^i'e.ssion that the allegations against Sullivan were without foundation.

81 BIKES IN CHICAGO.

The strikes which being arranged to take place hero on Ist May will affect 12,000 firms, employing in the aggregate 200,000 men and 24,000 women. Tho leaders of the agitation are becoming alarmed at the dimensions the strike is likely to assume, and seok to limit it to carpenters.

FLOODS IST AMBBI \4. New Orlbanß, April 26. At Imperis the f.'ods have been very oovore, and 5000 peupie have bceu ron4orcd destitute,