CABLEGRAMS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2501, 4 September 1890, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(Per Press Association.—Coptiiobt) (by submarine cable.) LONDON, Bept. l Ths North of England eleven wervalUit for 75. Ferris took seven wickets fori runs. In the second innings th« AtJ traliane have lost one wicket for 20. | At a meeting attended by aix«y ihiJ owners a anion wae established, aadJ resolution of sympathy with tin iJ tralian shipownera was passed, warwH approving their action in resisting tu strikers. The Times says that the Trades &J greee represents two types of nniosiiU and that it ia improbable that the skJ unions will rsspond to the AuetraW appeal, notwithstanding John Barns'lm crously incorrect acoount of the atrog'J Still the congress is formally pleagsd a support the gigantie strike if Wiled J cloaively to unions, though' apologia of the latter confess that they listed grievance as to hours, wages, or piisl work.

Mr MatkiD, who was chosen : praid of the Trades Congress at Liverpool, hie opening address advocated legisiiti in favor of eight hoars as a day’s lab land nationalisation, state control of n ways, nationalisation of mines, sod t using of the Trades Union funds for I employment of members ef the union certain trades.

Mr J. C. Williamson, of Melbourne, I arranged with Bars Bernhardt and I company for a ten weeks' season, op ing in Melbooroe on tha Ist Judo ,t! Among the pieces to ba predated “ Cleopatra,” by the French dr tout Viotorien Sardou.

Messrs Steensbrand, who carried I Liverpool market last year, have foiled a quarter of a million sterling. In reply to further applications by I Colonial Agents-General, the Treosorj iterate their inability to contribute tel cable subsidy or guarantee. Shares in the Bank of New Zealaod i quoted at £6 15s, old issue, and £5 I the new issue. In the matoh against the North of 6 land the Australians have in their wei innings lost seven wiekets for 145 b Trott 34 and Tamer 33. At the Derby meeting the Chsnp Breeders Foal Stakes resalted as fotk*i —Gone Coon 1, Springtime 2, Bowl ous 3. The Trades Union delegates pointed a committee to collect fundo I aid of the Australian strikers. Engine* laborers, painters, gas - stokers, men, seamen, firemen, compositor*, m others ore represented on the commiH Mr B. Tillett announced that every tiq had joined in subscribing, and they H determined to send at least £40,0M the oo'onies. The dookers alone, ke<J wonld send between £15,000 and £*s* and every docker had agreed to gi"l least 3d weekly, while some wen tribatiog 2s 6d. A manifesto has been issued igs4 to all onions to oollect moneys for *4 tralia. j

The executive of the onions nest tv weekly to deal with subscriptions. Fivo mass meetings have been snw| in London, at which ooflectiooi will made on behalf of the colonials. Mr Montague Williams, Polina M trate at Greenwich, has passed a sen* of six months' imprisonment witb H labor on several stevedores who * charged with menacing dockers. The Shipowners' Association at meeting proposed a federation of • trade of the British Empire for dgdj| with labor questions in all parts n! J world, to resist the tyrannous d«W of the anions, and for the protsotwj crews and servants against intissthfl It is also proposed to indemnify insnjfl who make sacrifices, and to proroot* lation in that direction. The u*o°3 will also encourage the opening of*! union register. A Control Council ii»l

' establish.!] in London, with committees in varioes shipping centres. Mr Tnomas - Laos Deeitt, of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, presided, and Mr J. A. Lewis, of Newcastle, was appointed mana-ar of tbs organising committae, .-Jwhich has arranged to sit daily. Tba representatives of five mi lion toes have approved the decisions axri ved at to-day, and other owners have yet to be consulted. The association carried a resolution pledging those present to anpport the Australian aajociatfon by all the means at their disposal. One hundred million poondß of capital was represented at the meeting. Members said that they had no desire to force a fight, hot the unions must keep to legitimate objects for which they were established.