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Evening Star, Issue 3390, 2 January 1874, Page 2

Wellington, January 2. The seamen arc all on strike ; thsy demand L 7 a month wages, and eight hours’ labor when in port.

The Caledonian sports yesterday passed off successfully, nearly 4,000 persons being present. The champion race race was done in 5 minutes 15 seconds ; putsing the 221b stone, 27 feet 9 inches; throwing the heavy hammer, 191bs weight, Cl feet 10 inches. Not a single police case occurred. Five hundred excursionists went to Picton in the Taranaki. This morning the Captains of all steamers in port were served with a formal notice from the Seamans Strike Committee that the seamen would work no longer, except at an advance of LI per month, making the wages L 7, and Working only eight hours instead of twelve. There is an inclination to concede to the advance demanded, and the captains may agree , I labor. The matter is not yet settled. A. difficulty arrives from the uniform termination of articles at the end of June and December, as by law enacted, thus affording seamen an opportunity to combine and extort their own terms. , Auckland, January 2. ine races yesterday {did not equal expectations, and a Serious row occurred over all the horses entered for the Railway Stakes being scratched; leaving Papapa to walk over. Inspector Brohan, some of the police, and Mr xiaramgtoii, clerk of the course, attempted to clear the course, when the latter was dragged from his horse, which rolled over him, and he was trampled on by other horsemen in the crowd. He was picked up insensible, but his injuries are not serious. Brohan was also gulled off his horse. A man lias been approended, who is believed to be the ringleader,

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