Aug. 23. In reply to the request of Sydney, Aug. 24.
'Ten British steamers ate ide. "the crews total 2,000 men, of wher 1,600 are practically homeless." 'The {remaining' 400 are llewed aboard pending settlement, The marine transport group to-day.
innimously decided to support, feed house striking British seamen.
The departure of the Orient linet Oraraa his been indefinitely postpened. The P. & 0. liner Chitral Wwhove crew his refused to join the strikers, sails on August 23, without cargo. The crew of the P. & O. liner Mongolia has expressed its determi ation to remain on the ship and to, resist to its utmost attempts to make. the men leave, Aug. 25.
A meeting of the Union to-day decided that if Mr. Walsh or any other strike leader was arrested "the New South Wales seamen would stop work.
Meetings of every branch of the Seamen's Union have been convoked throughout the Commonwealth Reuter.
Wellington, Aug. 24, A mass-meeting of British seamen and firemen at Auckland' decided to strike' to-morrow.—Reater,
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