LABOUR.
London, Nov. 16. The employers and employes’of the brass foundries in Birminghan have concluded an agreement to refer all disputies td arbitration. Sydney, Nov. 17. Thirty master tailors have coneeded their men’s demands for an increase of wages. Paris, Nov, 16. 15 thousand colliers in the north of France have struck for increased wages. Gendarmes are patrolling the districts affected. Berlin, Nov. 15. The compositors’ strike has become general in Germany. Two thousand are out in Berlin alone. Brisbane, Nov. 16. Shearing troubles are again looming in the future, and incendiary fires are occurring in the western districts. The Colonial Secretary believes that there is an organised arrangement to carry out operations in the same way as last year. The richest man in Australia is said to be Mr James Tyson, who is reported to be worth £6,000,000 ; and the next richest is Mr Walter Hall, of Mount Morgan, whose wealth is close on £2,000,000. Among landowners Mr Sam. McCaughy, of Coree, and half-a-dozen other stations, takes the lead in wealth, while he also holds the distinction of being the largest sheep-owner in the world, his flocks numbering considerably more than 1,000,000
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2282, 19 November 1891, Page 1
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193LABOUR. Temuka Leader, Issue 2282, 19 November 1891, Page 1
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