THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2182, 31 March 1891, Page 1

THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

St, Joh2*b, March 26.

Fifteen members of the Newfoundland Assembly retused to attend the House while the Royal assent was being given to certain measures which bad been aspsed, adopting this step as a protest against the coercion of the Imperial Government. The Speaker and Premier obeyed the summons Those members shouted out " Traitors, traitors."

March 27.

The Premier of Newfoundland, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the leader of the Opposition, and two others, have been appointed delegates to proceed to England to protest against Imperial coercion.

London-, March 28

The Times in discussing the dispute with Newfoundland, while deprecating the attitude adopted by the . colony, w&rns both France and Great Britain not to drag the colonists into unhesitating submission,

LYNCHING! AT NEW ORLEANS

Washington, March 29

Detective O'Malley has been indicted at New Orleans for bribing the jury in the Sicilian murder tria/, London, March 27.

At a meeting of Italians in London it was resolved to demand the punishment of the New Orleans lynchers.

LABOR QUESTTONrf.

Lowdon, March 27.

Lord Danraveu favorß the establishment of a State Labor Department. He attributes the spread of trade unionism to the creation of Joint Stock Companies and believes additional legislation on the labor question is necessary. Sydney, March 28.

A document which was taken from the uniouists by the troopers at Baroaldine on Wednesday is of a revolutionary character, and shows that the trouble is not to be confined to Queensland but is to embrace all the southern colonieß. Murphy, a prominent labor leader at Roina, has been arrested on a charge of bein? concerned in the compilation of the document, On the arrival of the troops under Colonel French at Gympie they were rather roughly jostled by a band of about four hundred men, Eventually the obstructionists were compelled to clear away from the drill shed at the point of the bayonet, In the scuffle several persons were slightly injured by thrusts from bayonets.

Auckland, Maroh 28.

The bootmakers on strike number 184, ot whom 89 ore married and 95 single. The committee state that at present it will not be necesary to make a lery owing to the amonnt of funds in band. The men contend that it is only fair that the same price should be paid for work in the north as in the south. Five employers have accepted the scale submitted by the anion. It fixes the minimum wages at £2, provision being made for elderly men who are not able to compete with younger ones in piecework, A telegram has been received from Christchurch, urging the men to hold firm and guaranteeing them assistance,

IRISH AFFAIRS,

London, March 28.

The Standard's Rome correspondent telegraphs that His Holiness the Pope is consulting with Archbishop Walsh as t-> the best way to maintain the United Catholic Party in Ireland, and that the Pope suggested the removal of Mr Parnell from the leadership.

Mr O'Knlly, Mr Parneli's agent, is confering with the president of tho Olau-na-Gael on Irish affairs,