LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2177, 19 March 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

London, March IS. Mr J. Morley has bean offered a seat on the Labor Commission. Berlin, March 16. The interest of the Emperor in the labor canse is cooling down, and also for eight hours work for miners, which the officials declared impossible to carry out, Washington, March 15. Fifteen thousand men have struck in Pennsylvania for 8 hours a day. This is the beginning of a movement which is expected to involve a hundred and twenty five thousand men by May, Brisbane, March 16. An attempt was made to wreck the train conveying the military to Barcaldiae. Large pieces of iron were placed across the rails, but luckily they were discovered in time to avert an accident.

IRISH AFFAIRS,

London, March 14. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto appealing to the Irish-Amerioans to assist him to quell the mutiny aud disloyalty of a section of the Irish party, Qe asserts the difficulty was created by the hasty and meddlesome interference of English politicians,*! aided by panics among young recruits, and seconded by malcontents and office seeders, March 16. Mr Parnell speaking at Dublin asserted that daring the negotiations at Boulogne his opponents had offefad concessions even to the verge of weakness to secqre his own retirement, He himself was content with the past. Speaking of the future he said his relations with the Liberals would compel him to oppose the Labour candidates, but England must adopt the one man one vole pyiqciple and legalis" eight }n the qon?se of the speech be denied that he had attempted to dissuade Mr Michael DaviU from becoming a member of the Labor League. After the meeting Mr Parnell went to Galway where be met with an en. thusustic reception,

New York, March, 17. ! A meeting of the delegatee of the McCarthy party resulted in a free fight, daring which batons were used, freely. The police charged the rowdies and restored order,

THE STORM IN ENGLAND.

London, March 15. Four vessels have been wrecked off the Start and fifty-three persons drowned. Fourteen vessels, including.sevaral Urge steamers.have been totally lost or severely damaged on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, The storm has now ceased, The expres which left Wellington station on Monday did not arrive at Plymouth till Friday night. A hundred passengers were rescued near Okeliampton, after being buried in- a snow drift 14 hours. The Servia is safe. _ Five thousand sheep hove beau frozen to death on the hills in Wales. The United States man-of-war Galina was wrecked on the Hampshire coast during the recent storm. The steamer Aberfeldy, bound from Sydney to Dunkirk, collided with tbs steamer Fifeshire, which was on her voyage from Port Chalmers to (London, off Gravesend to-day. The amount of the damage has not been ascertained. The steamer Roxburgh Castle, 1235 tons,was run into by another vessel off, the Seilly Isles and foundered. . Twenty-two of those on board were drowned.

THE NEW ORLEANS LYNCHING RIOT.

W ashinOTO2T) March 16. The attack on the Sicilians at New Orleans was organised by leading citizens of the town, and, the lynching was approved by the leading commercial bodies. The Italian Consul has demanded the punishment of the murderers. Secretary Blaine expresses horror at the outrages, and is conferring with the President. Three.leading lawyers of New Orleans harangued the crowd, which acted deliberately. The whole city was incensed against the tyranny and corruption of the Mafia Society, to which the Sicilians belonged, and it is believed the police officials connived at the lynching. The Governor called out the .military, hot they were vary slow in responding. The men who were shot included fonr who had been acquitted, three about whom the jury disagreed, and four who had not been tried. It is alleged that a detective named O’Malley, was agent of the Mafia, and bribed the jury; be narrowly escaped being lynched too. The foreman is now in prison.

The Mafia Society hava threatened to poison the family of Parkinson, who is said to have been the chief leader of the lynching party, and some of the members of the society have avowed their intention of stabbing Parkinson to death. Mr <L G. Blaine, who has been in communication with King Humbert of, Italy on the subject of the outrage, has asked him to swait the report which will be furnished. In this city it is threatened that a million of Italians residing in the sjate of Louisans will, organise vendettas with the object of having the foreman of the jury expelled from New Orleans,