HOME AND FOREIGN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2952, 20 April 1893, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LABOR MATTERS.

London, April 18 Tho shipowners after considering the terms of the compromise, remitted their final decision to the federation, j The proposals stipulate for freedom of ! organisation both to the Unions and the Federation, and that shipowners are not to show any preference to nonunionists. The pres-j is unanimous in considering the dock strike settled. GOVERNORGENERAL OF CANADA. Lord Aberdeen succeeds Lord Stanley as Governor-General of Canada in i September. THE SUTHERLAND CASE. London, April 19. The Duchess ot Sutherland swore that the letter was written by the late Duke to herself in 1886, relating partly to an unpleasant occurrence between the steward of a yacht and her maid and being specially private. She thought that she was at liberty to destroy it. She believed that its presence among the Duke's papers was accidental, and that it was not included in the order made by the court There was nothing in the letter in reference to herself that she objected to publish. Mr Justice Jeune said that the act was without parallel, and looked as though it had been deliberately planned. The Duchess had acted with violence and deceit, having apparently concealed the letter in her hand until she had a chance to burn it. He was unable to accept her statement. She was not aware of the real effect of the order of the court. The sentence upset the Duchess, who was allowed to go home upon undertaking to surrender herself at. Hollo way gaol, where as a first-class misdemeanant she will be allowed to furnish her own cell. Her solicitors hope to obtain a partial remission of the sentence, and it is rumored that a writ of habeas corpus will be moved for on the ground that a Peeress cannot be arrested in a civil case. THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. The Treasury has consented to pay an additional fifteen centimes per lb on New Zealand mails via San Francisco, equivalent to ;£SOO per annum. IMPERIAL FEDERATION.. Mr Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, w ill read a paper at the Society of A rts meeting on May 16, on Imperial Federation. LORD DERBY. The Earl of L-erby is suffering from heart disease, and his condition is serious.