ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. MAIL ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume X, Issue 2730, 15 March 1876, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. MAIL ITEMS.

An extensive lock -out of cotton wea vers has occurred at Macclesfield,

The London Trades Council has resolved to initiate a movement against the present high price of meat. Nearly one thousand colliers are on strike in South Wales.

A railway train, containing military recruits ran off tho embankment near Odessa. The carriages were set on fire, and 54 people svere were injured and 68 Rilled. Violent storm at Omn in Algeria. Tho damage has been estimated at 700,000 francs.

Some stir has been made by Mr Fyfe, agent of Mr Plimsoll at Liverpool, having telegraphed to the Queen to stay the departure of an unseaworthy vessel. The matter was referred to the Board of Trade. Twenty of the crew had been sent to prison for refusing to proceed to sea. Subscriptions for the widow and children of H. Wainwright amount to about £1,200.

There is great danger of a general war between the masters and men in the iron trade on the vital question of of piecework. Messrs Raton and Anderson, owners of the Nile ironworks, having decided to extend the practice of piecework. About 2000 engineers went out on strike.

Arrangements are being made at the Cape for the importation of Coolie labour. The Government allow £7 per headfor every Chinaman delivered in the colony up to a thousand.

A, committee has been fermed in London to oppose the cession of the Gambia settlement to France. Sir C. Wingfield (the chairman) and Alderman Me Arthur intend to bring the subject before Parliament.

The preparations are now complete for rehoisting to its position on the summit of the column the bust of the first Napoleon as Emperor. It will be dressed, not in his regimentals and cocked hat, but in his imperial robes.

The Hour had an article on the new fibres oi' commerce, in which it particularly dwelt upon the various fibres to be found in New Zealand.

Dr, Hector, of New Zealand, r«ad a paper ou the Alps of the South Island at the Geologists' Association University College. Great interest was manifested in 'the lecture, and some excellent coloured sketches were shown, illustrating the beauty of tho New Zealand Alpine scenery.