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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1470, 2 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PttKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Thursday The lumpers strike still remains m statu quo. l: The funeral of Colonel Reader took place this afternoon. The deceased was accorded full military honours and funeral cortege. Notwithstanding that J the weather was. most boisterous it -was a very imposing one. Archdeacon Stock conducted the funeral service. The examination proves that the steamer G.rafton was not injured by her grounding on the sandbank to the east-ward of Cape Farewell. The flower show at the Exhibition i.B a great success. . The Gazette issued tonight contains no information of any importance. Auckland, Thursday. Henry Ick Bush, a cook, was found drowned m the Wangarei River. He had been drinking. , The New Zealand Co-operative Land and Labour Company opened their first shop to-day. The Auckland branch of the Federated Seamen's Union have held a meeting for the purpose of considering th" arrangements recently anived at by the Northern Steamship company, that their employes should not reccivts payment for overtime. The conclusion arrived at by the Union was that members shonld adhere strictly to the rule which requires that seamen shall bo paid for all overtime, making no exception m cases where a vessel .iB worked accordingto fitness for navigation m tidal rivers^ Relations between the union anil the Company are therefore once inoro considerably strained. " Dunedin, Thursday. '. A deputation fiom the Manufacturers'. Association waited on tlie Premier to.-day 1o bring under his notice how unfairly the boiler-makers at Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland, were handicapped; by the boiler which is to be put m the' Stella having to be delivered at Wellington. The deputation wished if any tender outside of Wellington were the lowest the steamer should be ordered to that port. The Premier promised to bring tlie matter under the notice of Mr Larnach, who it was'stated was stil! confined to his bed, suffering from inflammation of the lun»s.