LABOR QUESTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2183, 2 April 1891, Page 1

LABOR QUESTIONS.

Sydney, March 80. Mr J, D. Fitzgerald, the labor advocate who recently visited England to explain to the English Onions the. position of affairs in Australia, addressed; a meeting of Unionists at' Newcastle on Saturday night, la the course of his Teintl^ Mll that the repent bitter experience both at Home and in tbel colonies proved that strikes as a weapon of industrial reform had failed. This weapon for the future, ha considered, mast be direct ll representation in Parliament.

! Brisbane, March 30.:, A prominent labor leader named Berry,, who succeeded' the officers 'previously aarested, was taken into custody on bis a rrival at Clermont. i*oar hundred and fifty military are now stationed in the disturbed districts, The Unionist leaders have cabled to the Government of the Argentina Republic asking if they are willing to assist bushworkers tti take up land with the view of establishing co-operative colonies. March 31. A riot occurred near 6t George, iq ( which a party of unionists were engaged.. One free labourer was taken to the hospital badly injured. Sixty men were arrested.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

Ottawa, March 29.

The Canadian biprernmetit request the Marquis of : Salisbury to prohibit. 'Newfoundland discriminating in favor, of America respecting the sale of bait. ! St, Johns, March 29.

Captain Walker, of H,M,B. Jtimerald, will appsal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Court, by which he was mulcted in damages for closing Baird’s lobster factory.

SHOCKING ARTILLERY A.O3IDENT.

Melbourne, March BQ. ;'Ai terrible accident occnrred at the Easter manoeuvres at Qoeenscliffe, Corporal Bai ey and Gunner Donaldson ot the Geelong battery, were closing the breech block ofa 6-in Armstrong gun the gun exploded and both men were mangled beyond recognition, nothing being left on tbeir bodies but their boots. Other men belonging to the detachment Wern'sent reeling abont in ! (he blinding smoke, streaming with blood, and are badly scorched. Lient. Mnoro and Gunners Heaghton, Deggan, and Nott, who were close to (ha gnu which exploded, are severely bat not dangerously, hurt. Colonels Price and Goldstein, Captain Upbalby, and other officers dashed np to the battery and recovered the wounded, The cause of the explosion is at present unknown.

DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH TROOPS.

Calcutta, March 30.

Four hundred and seventy Gboorkas and eight British officers'commanded by a Commissioner from Assam, have been destroyed while attempting to qnell a rising against the Rajah of Manipirt, The’ Commissioner was Bnmmoned to Durban to secure the arrest of the rebel chiefs, and the following night the camp was attacked. The camp was successfully defended for two days when the supply of cartridges became exhausted. The force then scattered, A few of the fugitives have reached Assam, bat it is feared that the remainder were massacred. A fresh expedition from Assam has been despatched against the rebels.