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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 47, 8 July 1890, Page 2

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A New Labour Ogan.

The Fisheries Dispute.

A “Much Married man."

New Zealand Bank. '■ , ■ LONDON. July 2. William Ewart Moran, who declared his real name to be Egan, Has been charged on six informations of bigamy, and it is believed there are other cases. The accused was married to Emma Figg, at Winchester in March, 1885, and Annie .Speer at Dover, in 1886. Both these women are in Australia, and the Treasury desire to obtain their address. Moran asserts that he was imprisoned in Wanganui in March,1887, under the name of Sydney Egan.; The wife and four daughters of' Mr James O’Connor, of United*'lreland, have died irom eating: poisonous mussels. ' u - . The Western. • Australian. Enabling Bill has passed through; committee, and' the, third reading is fixed for Thursday. New clauses were proposed; preventing the introduction of . immigrationof British subjects, referring to mining'' on, private . property, .and frights.,of foreigners engaged in pearling,. ,but all were negatived., . , .. Two thousand telegraph,.operators.; when asked to cheer the. Queen, hissed and groaned,, as a protest against the, over,.work tp which they are subjected. ' ' ' July?. •

A company, including some! first-class capitalists in this city , has been formejd to,. take : . over, the globo . assets in the Bank of New .Zealand. The Bank has obtained large advances, while retaining control Of the assets, and iuture profit advances : will be ample for all wants, including further extension of business.. The capitalists ar ! e; fully satisfied with the soundnesss of the Bank, and it is expected the schemewill be completed immediately^ My 4.

Mr Dayitt is about to start the Labour World, an organ to advance the cause of the labour. party. He intends to publish .Richard Pigott’s diary in it, Leeds is quiet, but troops, remain on duty. Strikers will be granted higher wages.

. New Zealand hemp, good medium quality, £l9 10a. England has offered Suakim to Italy on condition she renounces protection over the Somali Coast. _ All the Powers have signed the Anti-Slavery Act drawn up by the< Brussels Conference; except Ho'land, which will be allowed six months’ grace. July 3. The Premier of Newfoundland has arrived in London. He, asserts that the colony is thoroughly loyal and the fishermen are not excited, or likely to be provoked into attacking the French. He denied that the people are arming, or that any serious trouble may be expected. He expressed his conviction that the difficulty may be soon ar-, ranged. St. Johns, July;4. A French-man-of-war drove off 30 . British vessels taking bait at Portanport, and seized and cut their nets. MELBOURNE, July 5. It is proposed to increase the land forces of Victoria by two additional battalions, each on a peace footing of 500 men, with a war strength of 1000, and by two battallions of rangers, each corps to be 1000 strong. It is suggested that 'the' federal force on this basis would provide 12,000 rifles for Australian defence on a peace footing and double on a war footing, with an artillery force of 72 field guns. ADELAIDE, July 3. Parliament has adopted the Federal resolutions, and the Minister of Education and the Hon. Mr Barker have been elected delegates to the Convention. July 4. The Government deny that they intend entering into a reciprocal treaty with New Zealand, whereby oats will be admitted to South Australia free of duty. SYDNEY, July 8. In the Legislative Council an amendment to the Federal resolutions has been moved in the direction of giving the different colonies freedom of action after sitting on the Convention. The Herald this morning commenting on a remark made by Victorian legislators that the work of the Federal Convention is much lightened by New Zealand standing out, expresses the hope that this does not represent' the spirit in which the colonies go into the Convention, and, states that it is not for others to prejudice the decision of New Zealand, where the circumstances are admittedly different to those of the continental colonies, but New Zealand must put her own construction on the circumstances, and form her own decision on the question.