LABOR DISPUTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2111, 14 October 1890, Page 3

LABOR DISPUTES.

London, Oct. J2

Edwards, Secretary- of the Labor Defence Committre in Australia, has cabled to Barns for a loan of £20,000 repayment to ba guaranteed by the united Australian unions, He declares the success of the ; strike woU'd then be assured. The labor leaders are confident that they can raise the money, and are, taking immediate steps to obtain it. An “ Australian Saturday” on the lines of hospital Saturday is suggested. Adelaide, Oct. 10.

The Railway Commissioners estimate that they are losing £SOOO per week owing to tbe decrease in traffic c»used by the strike. Stdnbv, Oct. 10.

The coal supply is practically exhausted, and many factories have been using wood for acme time. Coal for household purposes is not to be ob'ained.

It is believed that the Government are considering the advisableneas, after the Colonial Treasurer has ande bis statement and when the disturbing influence of the labor crisis is past, of making an appeal to the country on the question of a revised tariff, and direct taxation.

Oct. 11.

Coal is selling at 45s per ton. Great preparations are bring made for the opening of Mount Kembla mine in order to supply the railways. The pit is guarded by a large force of military. Oct. 13.

Miners at Mount Kembla have made several unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the free laborers, but in each case the military frustrated their object. Mblbouhke, Oct. 11.

The Employers’ Defence Committee have decided to set apart a fond to subsidise non-unionists thrown out of work by the strike. The Premier, Mr Gillies, states that he has no intention of insisting on a conference of the parties to the strike. He only desires to point out the disastrous effects of its continuance, and to urge both aides to come to an amicable settlement as soon as possible.

NEW ZEALAND. Auckland, Oct. 10,

The whole of the miners remaining out on strike at Huntley went back to work this morning in the mines of the Taupiri Reserve Coal Company and Ralph Bros.’ mines without making stipulations of any kind. So far as Auckland is concerned, the strike of coal-miners is ended. ‘ The Gum Diggers’ Union is now one thousand strong. Gisborne, Oct. 13.

Most of the wharf laborers and lightermen who went on strike hare have resumed work.

Wellington, Oct. ]O. A number of delegates to the Labor Conference returned south to-day. The storemen who went out on strike are returning to work where there are vacancies. Twenty-three were taken on to-day. Oct, 12.

The local branch of the Typographical Association has decided that the holiday, in connection with the demonstration day, for the employes on evening papers shall be on the 28th inst,, and for morning papers the same evening ; or in other words the compositors will not work at all on the 28th.

Westport, Oct. 13

News comes from Deonistonu to the effect that the new men are proceeding with their work quietly. Christchurch, Oct. 12.

An interview took place yesterday between the committee of the association formed to work the port with free labor and the representatives of the labor party. The proceedings were private, but it is stated that nothing definite was arrived at.

Dunedin, Oct. 10,

At Port Chalmers to-day six men were fined in connection with the effigy burning. The J.P.’s considered the charge a serious one, the worst feature being that the effigy bad been taken to the residence of the person represented while his wife was lying seriously ill. A fine of fls eagh and costa was inflicted,

Oct. J§

Members of the Federated Stewards'and Cooks Union of Australia are moving the Supreme Court for an injunction to pastrain fche present trustees from uplifting £BSO, accumulated funds, end applying them as strike pay- I 1 is alleged the men were illegally called out under the union’s rules, ■

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. AVCKLiND, Oct. 11. Arrived, at 8 a.m.—Alameda, from San Francisco, after a very fine passage. Passenger** fur New Zealand : Henry Exley, wife and child, Ernest Sauterre, Louis Thomas, and thirteen steerage.

GENERAL SUMMARY. Tbe Irish Times, a Dublin Conservative paper, has set afloat a story that the Prince of Wales is promoting a marriage between bis youngest daughter, Princess Maud, and Ferdinand Rothschild, if the Queen will bnt grant a dispensation. Prince Louise of Wales is rapidly declining in health, and has fainting fits daily. A well-to-do resident of Ballingarry, Ireland, named McGrath, was brutally murdered by miners on September 14tb because he gave shelter to evicted farmers with whom they had quarrelled. Mr G’adatone is devoting his spare time at Hawarden to the arrangement of bis memoranda and manuscript letters, representing nearly a ton in weight, so that they may be available for the preparation of his own recollections, or for his biography. Miss Whits, a benevolent lady residing at Fulham, gave a meat supper to 100 laborers on September 14fcb, and before tbe meal was finished the entire company fell ill. Investigation showed that they were poisoned by corrosive deposit on the interior of the tins used, which bad not been properly cleaned by the servants. A Sun’s Benin cable despatch of September 14th says the Socialists in that city are making slow progress in their efforts to establish a theatre for the production of Socialistic plays. They intend soon to hold a meeting to induce people to withdraw from membership of religious communities. A careless set fire to some naptha stored in the Farringdon Station and started a disastrous conflagration on September 15th, which did much damage and seriously impeded the traffic for hours.

On September ICth, twenty mounted officers and guards dashed into the Thames to solve the problem of swimming horses across a river. Several crossed in safety, but three riders fell off and were rescued by boats. The national encampment at Bisleyjor rifle shooting has been marked by a disgraceful series of outrages committed by the soldiers on the country people in the vicinity. On September 14ih the farmers Were obliged to stand together for mutual protection, and since that time a constant feud has been maintained. Government interference is. asked fer.

In au official report made on Sept. 13th, Colonel Ford charges Sir W. Q. Armstrong and Co. with the contraband manufacture of quick-firing powder for foreign governments without a license, and recommends the prosecution of the company. The recent burning of a big brewery in Frankfort, in which serious loss of life occurred, was the work of a discharged operative. He set fire to the building and then opened the vats, and allowed 3000 barrels of beer to run to waste. After doing all the damage possible he committed suieide.

The banquet given at Quebec on the night of the 16th in honor of Prince George of Wales, surpassed in splendor anything of the kind ever attempted in the old Canadian town before.

Richard O’Brien, of Montreal, who is charged with being mixed up in the bogus report of a street fight, in which Prince George figured, appeared before Judge Desmayers on the 6th and pleaded not guilty. He was released on bail, giving bonds in 800 dollars himself, with two sureties of 500 dollars each. He has retained the services of two of the leading criminal lawyers in Montreal, and will contest the case. O’Brien, who is a newspaper reporter, says that he got his information from what he considered a good aouree. The teeling against him is very strong. The Queen sent a cable out to Lord Stanley on the 17th to have full particulars forwarded regarding the prosecution. The affair was widely published in England and caused the Queen and all the members of the Royal tamily much pain and anxiety. The Queen has been personally in communication with the Prince and Governor * General on the subject. An official German notice has been published in Bergomayo, Africa, permitting everybody to traflic freely in slaves, and only prohibits their exportation by sea. Owners are also authorised to recover runaway slaves. The Arabs are eyerjoyed by this turn of affairs, and are openly purchasing slaves from the traders.

A fire broke out on September 18th in a bouse on Friendrich Strasse, Berlin, occupied by a wealthy merchant named Schrichs aud bis family. His two daughters, a governess, and a maid were burnt tp death. Count Schlenitg, wfio has been ruined by gambling, committed suicide at Berlin on September 19tb. The fire at Salonica, by which the city was destroyed, broke out almost simultaneously in four different places, and is said to be the work of incendiaries. The Creek and Jewish quarters were devastated. The Government of Athene sent two warships to the port to prfitect the Greek subjects. the consulates, the cathedral, and tpostof the public buildings were destroyed, apd 12,000 houses were rpmed. When the Industrial Exhibition was opeped at Toronto on September Oth by the Earl of Aberdeen a very hasdsome United States flag, fluttering from one end of the grand stand, ryas ordeypej \p, be removed by a pfllitia polpnel named Gray, because jt wa§ R the flag of an ah'people,’’ This was done, amid"* 11 deaf of htanog cheeri " “ manager, he beard ot ihe occurrence, ordered tfle flag to be replaced, and Gray, botW with rage, demanded that ROtn the staff. Hill calmly that it should remain, as the ensign was only a graceful compliment to the American people, who visited the annual exhibition in large numbers. Hill’s better -judgment prevailed. The U.S. warship Baltimore arrived at Stockholm on the evening of September I2*h with the remains of, Jbo. Encson, inventor bf the American Monitor, on bo'-rd. Suitable services were held on Sunday the 14th. Au attempt was made by a young Armenian on September 16th, to kill Bishop Tadgad Oeeauceu, as he was leav-

ing a church in Constantinople. The Bishop escaped with « wound in the arm. The Chronicle’s Vienna correspondent says the prospect of the pass’go of the McKinely Bill, combined with the fall in gold, lowered the price of mother-of-pearl 14 per cent., and manufacturers of the articles closed their factories in order to avoid working at a loss. 30,000 persons were thrown out of work. The first Portuguese vessel loaded with kidnapped natives, from Mozambique, m root* to the West Coast, arrived at Capetown on September 18ih. The Qovarnor referred the matter to London, being unable to interfere, and :n the meantime the vessel proceeded on her way. In an interview with the editor of a Swiss newspaper, on September 4 h, Stanley refuted the various charges that Emin Pasha has made against him. He declared that a letter from Major Wiesmann first upset Emin’s gratitude, toward, and admiration for, the English, and made him weigh his chances on each s»de. The illness resulting from his accident placed him in the power of Wiesmann, and the latter whispered' things about Stanley, magnified and distorted, until he attained his ends. . The rebellion of the Liberal element in the Canton of Ticino, the only Italianspeaking canton in Switzerland, has resuited in favor of the rebels. The trouble in the canton is ah old one, and originated in the fact that Liberalism is rapidly becoming stronger io that country, and it is feared bj the Ultramontane or Conservative party, which has ruled the canton from time immemorial. In 3851 a.section was inserted in the Ticino constitution providing that if at any time a petition signed by 7000 citizens shall be presented to the central Government, asking for a revision of the constitution, an election shall be at once ordered. On the 7lh day of Angust 1000 people presented such a one to M. Respincb, head of the Ticino Government, but no action was taken. The petitioners represented the Liberals, while Kespinch was the representative of the Conservatives. The consequence of this inaction is the present rupture and the installation of a Liberal Government. The Government of Prance having ordered a search of St. Marae cemetery for the remains of Count Mirabeau, the people in the vicinity protes’ed against it, saying that the exha ; ation arising from the disiarbed ground would breed an epidemic. This has broken out as feared.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, Sept. 20.

The scheme for tunnelling New York Bay, a Bill for which was required in Congress on September lith, is a gigantic one. The cost is put at the rate of 1,250,000d 015. per mile, or 6,000,000d015. The purpose is to connect the Great Trunk lines lines terminating at Jersey City with Brooklyn. There is supposed to be a connection between this scheme and a plan for a European steamship line to atop at Nonbank Point, and not dock at New York City. Sarah Bernhardt proposes to bring an invoice of snakes taken from the forest of JtTontainebleau, to use when she comes to play “ Cleoparta” in January next. The snake in color resembles the asp, by which the Egyptian Queen died. One hundred negroes were poisoned at a political outdoor meeting in Birmingham on September 19th by eating diseased pork that had been treated previously with arsenic. Eight have already died. Henry Possell, a Lutheran resident in New York, finding his son resolved to marry a Boman Catholic girl against his wishes, attempted to shoot him at the altar on the day of the wedding. Being prevented, he went to the river and drowned himself.

Mr Child, proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, has telegraphed to Lord Sack* villa (formerly British Minister at Washington), for the purchase of the ground on which the Shakespeare memorial stands, If the offer is accepted he will present the ground to the town of Stratford-on-Avon.

A lawyer, Blickman, of Omaha, was in New York on September l§th pushing a claim to the entire east side of Broadway, from fifty to fifty-three streets. He claims he has bought the title from the real heir. He has smaller claims in Brooklyn and elsewhere. There is no longer a surplus in the United States Treasury. Thedisbursements in thirty-two days up to September 17H>, exceeded the receipts by 64,000,000 dollars

The Maryland Law School at Baltimore has refused to admit any more colored students, as the white members of the school have started an agitation against them from the fact that in scholastic honors “ black wins.”

Gustave A. Tuchel, a miserly Frenchman, was found dead from starvation io a squalid room of * New York tenement house on September 14*h. He was sixty years old. In the apartment where be perished articles of value were found and bank books showing 70,000d0l to his credit. Thomas Riley, a reporter for the Daily Commonwealth, Corington, Ky., ahotapd killed C. D. Jungerman, City Engineer of the neighboring town pf Newport, on September 14tb. There was an article rejecting on the Begineer in the C mtnonwealth, and meeting Riley be assaulted him, when the reporter drew a pistol and killed Jungerman on the spot.,

Lineman Qoop, who had gone up a pole in front of the Park Theatre on the night of September 15th, to flx an electric light, received the deadly current ip some way. and as the avidieppe passed out • theatre they him Ijiß* ” “ l ,he the wire, whil© «» - ' -/‘“P « orBBS trioily in**- . . BV u tU a 8 B if 6 ot J ] T ...g into iho flesh could be u oelow. He died soon after reaching the hospital. George W. Campbell, of Chicago, eon of millionaire cattleman, was married at New York on September 14th to Mies Helen, daughter of Sir Thomas Dodd, of West Derby, England. The marriage came about in this way ; —Campbell was sent to England three years ago by his father to attend a cattle shipment, and vthile st Liverpool he amused himself in taking part in Mexican Joe’s Wild West Shew. One night, just after he had while in full career picked a silver dollar out of the mud, the wind blew a lacs handkerchief from a beautiful young lady’s hand into the arena. He picked it up while riding, and returned it to the owner. Mutual friende introdueed them, they fell in love, and their engagement was sanctioned by Sir Thomas. As Campbell’s business prevented his return to England, Miss Helen decided to come to him, which she did by the City of Borne, and the marriage was solemnised as stated.

EthelOudis, nineteen years old, a prefy type writer;‘residing on Levington avenue, New,York, was burned to death on the night of September 17tb, the cause being smoking cigaretteu in bed.