LABOUR TROUBLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2228, 16 July 1891, Page 1

LABOUR TROUBLES.

London July 14,

The employees of thirty more building firms have struck for eight hours a day, at lOd an hour. The mill sawyers and wood-cutting machinists are demanding similar concessions.

Paris, July 13

The employees of the Orleans railway, who are on strike, demanding a reduction in their hours, assert that unless the demands are conceded by Tuesday the hands of five great railways in France will strike on Wednesday.

Svnxrv, -July I t,

,Sir Henry Parkes has written to the Pastoralists’ Association of New South Wales, suggesting the advisableness of that body holding a conference with the Shearers’ .Union. There was great excitement at Bourkc to-day. A train containing

350 free shearers was rushed by a large crowd of unionists, whom the police were powerless to keep off. The employer who had hired them, a squatter named Nutting, was badly hurt in the melee.

THE GREAT RAIN STORMS IN AUSTRALIA.

Melbourne, July 14

Nearly two thousand of the residents of South Richmond have been driven from their homes by the floods in that district, The whole of the street- is under water, and a large number of houses in low-lying portions are completely submerged. Although the w ater is falling there are still many houses which are inundated to the extent of 40-to, 15 feet.

A schooner, name unknown, was seen to disappear off Sorrento, southeast of Port Philip Bay, and it is believed that she is lost with all hands.

A fireman belonging to a dredge attempted to come ashore in a dingy, and when near Princess Bridge was capsized and drowned. Thousands of people witnessed the accident but were powerless to help the unfortunate man. A large relief fund is being started for the benefit of the sufferers.