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Globe, Volume III, Issue 227, 2 March 1875, Page 4

The following is a list of the ships and number of emigrants forwarded to New Zealand by the Agent-General for that colony during the month of November last:—City of Dunedin, from Glasgow, for Otago, with 226 souls; Rakaia, Canterbury, 331; Hudson, Hawke's Bay, 204; Garelock, Otago, 307; India, Auckland, 163; Edwin Fox, Wellington, 250; Oamaru, from Glasgow, Otago, 270; Wellington, Otago, 180; Fritz Reuter, from Hamburg, 517; total number of souls, 2448. The Clyde shipwrights are determined to resist the proposed reduction of wages, and as masters are equally resolute, the present partial strike will probably become general. Nearly 6000 men engaged in the iron and steel trade at Sheffield are out of employment, and many hundreds more are under notice. Some will be re-engaged on lower terms, 800 men are idle at Middlesborough, and an equal number at Stockton. Some men consent to ten hours' work in preference to a reduction of wages. On the 15th, a conference took place at Cardiff between the associated coal masters of South Wales and the colliers' delegates, when the masters declined to postpone notices for reduction of wages orrefer disputes to arbitration. A strike is imminent. Mr Henry Crawshay. the head of a large colliery firm at Forest Dean, has announced by letter that a diminution of wages is not warranted, and the communication caused much excitement.

The oppressive tariff of the United States has led to a system of fashionable smuggling by tourists, which is on the customary gigantic scale of everything American. "The Commissioner of Customs," says the Pall Mall Gazette, "in a report recently published estimated that the value of goods thus smuggled reached the sum of 128,000,000d01s yearly, but additional information received since the preparation of his report has convinced him that his estimate was under rather than over the mark. A case has been reported of a lady ' moving in the most fashionable circles of New York,' who mal'.es an annual tour to Europe, and who boasts that she realises more than her expenses abroad by the sale of silks, velvets, and laces which she brings in as her own wearing apparel. Some time since a resident of Massachusetts, who has represented the state in Congress and filled other high positions, returned from Europe with fifteen trunks. On his declaration that they contained only the personal effects of himeelt and bis family they were passed, It was ,

afterwards discovered that probably onehalf ot the contents of these trunks were intended for ' lady friends of the family.' The Government in this case lost, it is estimated, SOOOdols, to which it was justly entitled. On the 20th ult a report was received by the Commissioner of Customs of a case which occurred on the steamer Java on its last inward voyage. A passenger ' closely allied with some of the oldest and proudest families of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,' had five trunks passed as his personal effects. Three out of the five were, however, delivered —one to the wife of a wealthy citizen of New York, and one each to two ladies in Princeton. Thf se trunks contained property dutiable to the amount of 1,391 dollars. On the facts being discovered an offer was at once made to pay the full amount of the duty and the penalty, which was 4,288 dollars. These are but samples of many other similar cases constantly reported, and it has been ascertained that at some of the customhouses a regular' baggage ring' exists to facilitate these smuggling operations, in which the officials themselves appear to be implicated."