LAW AND ORDER,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 4

LAW AND ORDER,

HINT FROM HIE PRIME MINISTER

"So far as I am concerned, I decline to go into details, but it is tha duty of the Government to maintain law and order, and we will do it so far as we possibly can. Any person breaking tho laiv will have to take the consequences." •

:. The foregoing • brief statement was made by tho Prime Minister (tho Hon/ W. F. Massoy) in reply to a general inquiry by a Dominion reporter as to what tho Government were'doing. More than this he would not say. Referring to tho statement made that ho had interested himself in the negotiations for T/he settlement of tho dispute, Mr. Massev informed a reporter yesterday that all that ho had done up till the present waß t-o send a letter to tho _ president of tvhe Shipowners' Federation and the president of tho Waterside Workers' Union making tho following offer;— "I shall ho very glad L to take part in any eonfereilco which may be arranged with the object of drawing up a new agreement as between the shipowners 5 on'.the one side and the waterside workers o.ti the other." To that, letter 'he had received., verbal replies by telephone merely acknowledging tho' receipt of the letter in tho meantime. , PICTON EXCURSION CANCELLED. The Union Steam Ship ■ Company advises that tho Waliino s excursion to ricto.li to'day (Labour Day) has been definite]}; abandoned. • '