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Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1892, Page 2

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Evidence was given before the Labour Commission to show that certain omnibus and tramway owners shamefully ignore their covenants with regard to hours of labour and rate of pay. The Secretary of the Omnibus Union stated that the tramway men were unanimously in favour of the municipal bodies obtaining the ownership of the tramways. The owners of the iron works at Bolton have given notice of dismissal of 2000 of their employes. The Scotch miners, with the exception of those in Stirlingshire, refuse to go out on strike. The Durham owners have definitely decided fco shut down the pits. The House of Commons has been appealed to with regard to the by law in force in Eastbourne, forbidding the Salvation Army to parade the streets of the town. Captain Kane has been promoted to the post of commodore, and given command of the Calliope on the coast of Africa. A Baring's Estate Trust is being formed in order to relieve the Bank. The loan floated by the Manchester Corporation to assist the Canal Company was subscribed three times over at an average of £95 14s* The amount asked for was a million and half at 3 per cent, and the minimum was fixed at 94. The Zanzibar correspondent of the Standard says it is reported that the natives have inflicted a severe defeat on the British East African Company's Sepoys, under the command of the' Colonel Rogers, at Witu, killing many of their number and capturing a Maxim gun. The Sepoys were greatly outnumbered. Thomas Healy, a brother of Tim's has been elected unopposed for the Wexford North seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr John Bedmond. The election of a member to fill the vacancy in the Kirkaldy seat, caused by the death of Sir George Campbell, took place, when Mr Dalziel (Gladstone Liberal) was returned by a majority of 1086 over his opponent, Mr Cox, the Conservative candidate. G. W. Hastings, M.P. for East Worcestershire, has been convicted of fraud as a trustee, and sentenced to fivo years' imprisonment. Morland, the blackmailing tutor at Oxford, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. G. W. Hastings, M.P. for East Worcestershire, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for fraud, will be expelled from the House of Commons. Three hundred thousand miners ceased work last week, and a further 100,000 will go out next week New Zealand long-berried wheat, 44s' 9d ; market quiet. Lamb has risen Jd, but frozen meat is otherwise unchanged. New Zealand hemp is in moderate demand ; common kinds have declined 14s ; superior sorts are unchanged.