NEWS OF THE WORLD.
[BY ELECTRIC TELELRAT'H— special to STANDATJ.)
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
A terrible famine is feared in Ireland. Two people were blown to pieces by’a gunpowder explosion near Waltham Abbey, in Essex. Reports from Armenia state that disturbances there are increasing, and much alarm is felt.
SanjSalvador has rejected the terms of peace offered by Guatemala, and it is believed that war will be renewed. The Colonial and Smithfield Meat Freezing Company, with a capital of ,£lOO,OOO, has been registered in London. Its operationswill be confined to Queensland.
The Medical Officer of Clonakilty, County Cork, reports that three thousand people in his district will be in a starving condition within amonth unless assistance is rendered. The London Economist, in referring to the Taranaki Harbor Board in New Zealand, asserts that the Government of the colony has shown a lamentable absence of care and financial rectitude in the Taranaki Harbor Board’s business.
A severehurricane has been experienced in the province of Sryria, Austria, and the National Exhibition at Gratz, the capital, was destroyed.
A cyclone which passed over the region of the Jura mountains, Switzerland, resulted in 190 lives being lost. The Clauti Cathedral tower was destroyed, and many factories collapsed. The annual conference of delegates of the Dockers’ Union will take place in London in September. The difficulty between the Seamen’s Union and Danish steamers, in which the former insisted on foreign sailors being paid the same rates as those in English steamers, has been settled by a compromise being effected, and the threatened boycott of the Northeast ports is averted. The strike among the rivetters of Staffordshire and Worcestershire ended in the masters having given way, and the men have resumed work.
The leaders of the labor organisations have censured the Tilbury, dock laborers for striking for the expulsion of nonUnionist men. The dockers have sullenly given way, and resumed work. The strike among the colliers at Brussels is extending, and 12,000 men are now out.
Emperor William has sent delegates to Lancashire to ascertain and enquire into the working of the labor laws there. Mr Bradlaugh proposes to ask that a Parliamentary Committee be set up to inquire into the results of Australian statistics dealing with the labor question. Serious reports are received from the Governor of Illinois as to the New York Central Railway strike. The porters of Chicago and the North Western, and the engineers and firemen have struck for higher wages, and the result is that the railway track is filled with meat trains. There is a prevalent feeling of satisfaction among capitalists in London that Australia is suffering from the consequence of a dock strike, as it is recognised that colonial help has stimulated many of the recent labor troubles in Great Britain.
The Times avers that the coming question will not be one of wages, but of individual liberty. The Standard declares that the labor organisations have provoked capital to combine for self-defence. Sales of properties belonging to the Estates Company, to the value of /joo.ooo, have been made since Mr Hean’s report was submitted, and have realised considerably in excess of his valuations. The Hon. G. M. Waterhouse suggests that the capital account of the Bank should be reduced by £300,000. It is understood that the directors contemplate the calling up of/3 per share. Out of the total issue of new shares of the Bank 125,000 are held in the colony. Proposals for reducing the capital of the Bank provide for the writing off of 35s from £7 shares and 30s from others, the profit derived from the sale of globo assets supplying the deficiency, and leaving a balance of £33>°°° to carry forward.
The Sydney Shipowners’ Conference, held at Albury, discussed the leading questions, and left the points to a board of experts to deal with. It was unanimously agreed that no officer should be given command of a vessel if he was connected with any Association affiliated to any labor organisation ; also that no free labor engaged during the strike be discharged at the termination of the struggle, provided such labor was competent and of good behaviour. A letter sent to the Seamen's Union, after traversing the whole difficulty, says: “For owners to pay away enormous additional sums per year simply means that vessels are to be run at a loss, and therefore the simple alternative is not to run steamers at all.”
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 498, 26 August 1890, Page 2
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735NEWS OF THE WORLD. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 498, 26 August 1890, Page 2
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