NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 561, 3 November 1902, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

During tho Boer war Hungary exported 83.680 horses to South Africa, by way of Fiume. An official executioner in Japan was Jecapitated when crossing a railway track as neatly as if by his own official weapon. Private traders in Leeds recently decided in favor oj joint action to cornicle against the growing power of tho co-operative concerns. A pucKer muued Augustus Raynor, liv* ing at Leyton, whilo playing cricket at Walthamstow, was struck on the temple by tho ball and killed. For assaulting a follow workhouse inmate whoso snoriog disturbed him a man named Jeffery was at Tumbridge Wells sont to prison for a month. Mr Hornblow is a candidate for Rangitikoi in the Liberal interest, but Ministers prefer Mr Remington. It therefore became the duty oi Mr Culver the election organiser, to endeavor’ to get Mr Hornblow to retire. He did so, according to a'statement) made

by Mr’ Hornblow, by offering to recoup all his expenses, to pay £l**o down m addition, and “ a remuneration equal to the honorarium,” we presume, Jor the duration of the Parliament. Tins item would amount to the very e0,,.M----dcrable sum of £9o*l, making LIOOO m all We wonder if this may be taken as the market price of an inconvenient candidate. If so, there is a hue held of industry open.— N.Z. Herald, He hoped the Arbitration Court make wages for Sunday such that it would not pay to do work on t>e Sabbath day, remarked Mr J- uHannan in the couuse of his political address at Auckland. Every working man and woman was as much entitled to their rest on the Sunday as the Governor or any of the Cabinet isters. Anyone who encouraged _ Sunday work was not the friend oi Ine working man. He would do all he could to keep the day oi rest saued to the people, and he would do a “ could to assist every worker to better their position. When he entered Lie City Council the men were only pettim' (is per day. He said it was not i enough, if they wanted good work , , iollc fa ,hey must pay the men goou , wages to keep them and their families , comfortable. He worked hard to assist the Council workmen to bctlei their position, with the result that , the men were now receiving 7s per ,]. IV He was sure that no person he-.c ' would say that it was too much, cou--1 sidering the price of meat, provisions, 3 house rent, etc. No one required bci--3 ter food than a working man.