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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 64, 5 September 1890, Page 3

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[By Telegraph.] (From Own Our Correspondent.)

.V-’-'V':'' .'WELLINGTON,- .. : ’ • The. case against E. X Robinson is being : liearH in tlie Supreme' Court ! tb-day. Accused is charged that while an officer of the Customs embezzled 'different Bums of ntoneyX”Jellic6e, defends. ! Tlie 1 case ; was not concluded , to-day. , A large number of Havelock, and Wairau witnesses are at present in Wellington to give 1 evidence in'charge against J. T. Robinson of embezzling Education Board funds, which comes off to-morrow. The strikes are still the principal matter of .interest. r , Tbd carters aiid storemen struck today, and are in momentary expectation that the railway servants will be called • 4 jut; 1 The position is consequently very critical. ; - There in a tendency on the part of .officers to go back to Union Company’s service. - : A new Officers’ Association has been fqrined, which has been .joined., by alithe. masters in the Union Company’s and other services. • The attempt to completely, boycott the Union Company is gradually ripening.,, Butchers will probably refuse to sUbplyhfiefiat- and carters and- wharfmeh refuse to take goods to or from the 'vessels. Still the vessels are kept running fairly well,by free labour, ami the .Company say that plenty of free labour is offering. ! The R.M.S. Tongariro arrived at

fcobart at 1 a.m. -to-day. She is expected to leave for New Zealand .-this, afternoon, -.and should therefore . arrive here on Monday forenoon.;;;,..: j .At ;Woodviljo:at .tire, inquest ..ppr the body of Walton, who. disappeared in the Manawatu .Gorge..a,; thequry returneeba verdict .that tiiere Wasino evidence to .show, the cause of death. The rnedical evidence went to jsbow; drowning as.the cause, and the fact that a.large,,stone was .found in a .Satchel round deceased’s meek ..points to suicide. ! - ■; i •. LONDON,).; Septeraber‘2. The Trades-Union delegates have appointed a committee to coll/ct funds in i aid of Australia. The e.ngifieer, laborers, | painters, gas-stokers, railway-men, seaI men, fire-men, .compositors,- and others are represented on the committee.. Fillet announced that every trade had joined in subscribing, : and they : were determined to send at least £40,000 to .the Colonies. .. .The dockers alone, he said, would send between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds, l and every docker had agreed to-give, at least 3d weekly, while some'were contributing 2s'6d. A manifesto has been issued, appeal-, ing to all Unions to collect moneys for Australia. ■ " ■ '' 1 ; - ‘ '■

In;; reply to further -applicatipns by the Agents-General, the Treasury reiterate, their inability to,,contribute to the cable subsidy or guarantee. . SYDNEY, ; | September 3. 1 The Trades ! and. yLabqur Council; f o-da,y received the ‘ first 'instalment of; the ' LbndVm dockers’ contribution, amounting to £SOO. A serious oecufred in Lower George-stfeet to-night.'A. num-: beripft free Jaboufersf were;SurrpubdGd by; 3000 of the men on strike, and others,! when bricks were v freely' llirdwii. 1 ' A| force of twenty-five police were quickly on .the,-snot, but so determined was _t.he| resistance bffe'red by the Unionists that the police, tor the first time siiice the striked began tp freely use their baton's: This step, however, had .but little effect on the, mob Until further re-inforcement of police arrived, when the crowd were Beaten off arid the free labourers rescued. The , latter, were. taken io the Police Station, 1 which’ was guarded by r; lot) police constables. ■ Large crowds hung übont. the Station awaiting . the ,'reappearance .of the, men, but, as-there were no signs of. them coming put again tonight the mob gradually dispersed. The Government have to-night enrolled a large number of special constables. - ■ -I-..,; ' i:; Pbiitical—tlie House 1 yesterday 1 did good, ,'vvork tyith .the estimates, but I learn that an attempt will be made by a section of* the - House, led by Mr r rkeep - Parliament.sitting wnile the labour difficulty existsl with a view jto .Cftritf,oiling, the action.of Government iuj the matter.. .Mr; Verrall’s State Bank proftosals were of course shelved, but .the courtesy, of : a bearing; wGs extended to him, : ami 21: members voted for the motion and, 35,against.,- : :