LABOR ORGANISING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1958, 19 October 1889, Page 3

LABOR ORGANISING.

AITOKLANB, Oct. 18. A largely attended meeting .of wharf laborers and lumpers wr.s hold last evening for the purpose of considering the fpimation of a wharf laborers uoioo. Nothing definite waa done, but over a hundred men gave their names as members. The meeting was unanimously in favor of forming a union for their protection against employers. A farther meeting will be held shortly. Chbisxohbkoh, Oct. 18. At one of the largest meetings ever held in Christchurch, convened by the Tailors Union, resolutions were carried «s follows; with the newly formed Union and wishing it every success in carrying out the cause and objects as contained in the circular issued to employers. (2) Expressing thankfulness to those employers who have sent favourable replies, and calling attention to those turns which are mainfcaing a hostile attitude to the Union’s action. (3) Expressing the fullest sympathy with any legitimate action which may be taken by the Union to put down the pernicious system of sweating. Amongst the speakers were Mr W. B. Percival and Mr R, M. Taylor, M.H.R.’s the Revs. P. R. Muaro, J. O’Bryan Hoare, R. Erwin, Edwards, Messrs C. Foetoh, F, Guinness, J. E. Taylor, F. fi, Parker, Godfrey, and others. Apologies, expressing sympathy with the movement, were read from Bishop Grimes, Father Lemanant de Ohesnais, J. Joyce, M.H.R., and Rev. L. M, Isitt. A very large percentage of those present were young women. The major presided, and the proceedings were of the h? 08t enthusiastic and determined pUracter tbe close oE the meeting an character, contradict the stateattcmpc was made u. . , moot that girls on prMb?“»K/“* informed that it was of a lowei olassjman they had thought it, and were necesa.. paid less than they expected. The meeting met the contradiction with expressions of indignant dissent, and would not listen to the speaker. In other respects the proceeding ß were most orderly.

It has transpired that Ada Gilberd' drowned in the recent Sydney yachting fatality, belongs to Auckland. She was aged 23 years. The leprosy amongst the Maoris at Waipu is said to he of the non-tuber-culated kind, and the natives say that it is not contagious. The Croesus Company, Nenthorne, Otago, obtained 128 ozs of amalgam on ton plates from equal to eighty tons of stone. Mr Bayley, chief Inspector of the Auckland district reports that infected sheep near Miranda, near Thames, are now free from scab. Dr Skey has received some silver ore from Maritoto. The pieces are only small, but the analysis gives astonishing results. In one instance the proportion is at the rate of 750 z of gold and 32980 z of silver to the ton, and in another 550 z of gold and 45260 zof silver. The exact nature of the ore is being further investigated. Specimens will be sent to the Dunedin Exhibition. A Chinese market gardener, living at the Styx, drove his cart over a two and a half year old child named Robertson at Christchurch en Thursday evening, It is said that the Chinaman took no notice of a warning given him by a lady who saw the child in front- of the cart, and after the child was run over, ou being told what he had done, he refused to give his name, and said it was no business of his. He was arrested, the same night. : The noted quality of tbo Coffee made in the Oaf6a of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly due to the fact that only Fresh Boasted Coffee is used; so that, none of the volatile oil and other essentials are lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffee,, and you will have a beverage alike refreshing and s imulatiug, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru.—[Adtt. 2J