LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2157, 31 January 1891, Page 3

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, Jan. 28. A band of strikers seized the locomotive shed at Sirathoveo, illtreated ihe cmi)loje3. »nd disabled an engine. In some-places the rails have been soaped, The amalgamated railway uoions have formulated demands for a reduction of hours on the English lines after Easier. A Bill, introduced by Mr Abraham, prohibits miners beidg obliged to work underground beyond eight hours under i penalty of 40s. The Caledonian Company refuses lo re-engage stokers in consequence of h'jir lawless conduct while the men were oat. The railway men are providing agaiosfc :he seizure of their funds. The lonic will collect a crew at an .utport. Free sailors are easily available. German steamers are in the Ihames trying to secure the trade. Jan. 29, Isolated instances of ou'rage and dam »go lo property contiuue to occur

among the Scotch railway men who are on strike, The strikers at Perth haye resumed work. Auckland, Jan. 28. The Committee of the Employers' Association have appointed a sub committee to confer with the Knights of Labor and the Trades and Labor Council with a view to the formation of a Board of Conciliation for Auckland to Fettle trade disputes,

Mr J. L. Toole is back in Melbourne to play a short farwell season. His valet, Ernest Garrad, has been arrested on a charge of theft from the popular comedian. He ia believed to have abstracted money from Mr Toole's pockets systematically for a long time past, and at last a trap was laid out for him with marked coins. At the Police Court at Hawthorn, one of the Melbourne suburbs, on Tuesday last Robert Bullen, an eccentric looking individual, who described himself as an ex-mspector of police of 26 years' standing, from New Zealand, was proceeded against for threatening the life of Marion Stock, a resident of Wakefield Btreet. He took a room from Mrs Stock, and lived at the place for about three months. On the Ist inst. he offered Mrs Stock some medicine for a cough, and because she refused he threatened to tear her heart out, and then made a rush at her father, who was in the house at the time. Defendant, who had been on remand for a week for medical examination, made a rambling statement in which he denied the allegations againßt him. The bench bound him over in his own recognisaoce of £25 to keep the peace for three months.