CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 360, 5 October 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

London, October 2. The surplus of the London dockmen’s strike fund amounts to £7OOO after retaining £2OOO to re’ieve distress consequent on the strike. The committee desire to formally thank Australia for the prompt aid rendered, and to elicit Australia’s wishes aa -o the ■lispos Jof the balance They suggest that the Piirpluß be utilised for the formation of a Universal Labor Federation Society, including Australia in itR scope.

Mr Wills, the father of Wills, the explorer, and who was second in command of the Burke and Wills expedition, is dead. The charge of assault on a girl, brought against the Earl of Galloway, has been abandoned,

The Emperor and Empres of Germany are visiting stamboul. The Australian mails were rescued from the railway accident in the tunnel in northern Italy, but, their transmission has been somewhat, delayed. Tha French Cabinet have decided to prosecute the newspaper Intransigeant for asserting that the military funds have been applied for electoral purposes. Mr Tillett will assist the Rotterdam dock laborers to organise a union.

A clue has been found to the Whitechapel murders, and the police expect hourly to make the arrest of a medical man.

A majoiity of the directors of the Colonial Union line have agreed to transfer the business to the company formed by Mr Tvaer, which is a limited liability concern, and the nharehnldArs will receive five per cent, debentures in Tyser’s company in exchange for the shares of the Colonial Union Company. A minority of the holders are hostile to the proposal, and are applying to the Courts for injunctions to restrain the majority from Carrying out the preliminary agreement.