LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2336, 29 March 1892, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, March 24. The Miners’ Federation are agitating in the direction of shutting out opponents of the Eight Honrs Bill at the General Election.

Before the Labour Commission it was shown that women engaged in chainmaking earned only 5s per week. March 26. At a great meeting of the Miners’ Federation and Coal Porters’ Union, a resolution was carried, urging working men at the general election only to vote for the candidates who expressed them- ' selves in favor of the Eight Hours’ Bill. Owing to mining riots at Hepburn in Durhamshire, the military have been called out to protect the volunteer barracks and patrol the streets. A miners’ riot is also reported from Morpeth, in Northumberland, and the York garrison is held in readiness to suppress it. Sydney, March 25. Mr Twomey, secretary of the local branch of the Shearers’ Union, has made some extraordinary remarks before a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council. He stated that in the Young district some labour trouble had recently occurred, and the men had formed themselves into prospecting parties, and had struck good gold on private property. They intend, he mentioned, to organise a new union and form parties of three or four thousand strong and simply take the gold. Also that’it was the shearers’ determination that they might as well be fed in gaol as starved outside. They were determined to have the gold, and if they could not get it by fair means they would steal it. Newcastle, March 25 The Coal Trust propose to build large cargo steamers and keep coal constantly pouring into such markets as San Francisco, San Diego, Valparaiso, Hong Kong, Calcutta, and Ceylon. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. London, March 26. The Small Holdings Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons without division. Speaking to the motion Mr Gladstone characterised the measure as an honest but only partial effort. In the House of Commons to-day, a motion by Mr D. Fenwick, member for Wansbeck, providing for the payment of members, was rejected by a majority of sixty-five. THE BEHRING SEA DIFFICULTY. London, March 26.

Members of the House of Commons who possess special knowledge of the United States display uneasiness at the attitude adopted by the Senate and President Harrison, as they fear that the United States Government will send warships to sweep the Canadian sealers oil Behring Sea. Questions regarding the difficulty will be asked in the House today. In the United States the dispute arouses but little popular interest, and American or English exchanges have not been affected. The Foreign .Relations Committee recommend that the Behring Sea treaty be ratified. Most of the English and American papers consider President Harrison’s action mere election bluster. Washington, March 26. The Government will send eleven warships to patrol the sealing grounds in Behring Sea. THE RAINHILL AND WINDSOR MURDERS. London, March 26. Seventeen additional witnesses for the inquest upon the bodies disinterred at Rainhill have been secured. It is reported in Liverpool that a lady who was an intimate friend of Mrs Deeming is prepared to swear that she visited her on a bank holiday a week and some days after the supposed murders on the night of July 26th. Sightseers rushed the villa to-day, overcoming the police on guard. The owner intends to den\obih the house and re-build in the vicinity. March 26. The police wholly disbelieve Deeming’s confession’s that he perpetrated two of Jack the Ripper’s murders. They state that Deeming and his wife, parted at the Cape in July, 1889, and travelled to London by different routes. Mrs Deeming and her children arrived in London on August 4th, and he on September 28th. Deeming then rejoined his wife, and subsequently the latter proceeded to Berkeiw head, while her husband rem.qp.W-d in London for a montlj.

IhoKTii, March 25. Do^active Cawsey, of Melbourne, has been informed through a private channel that Williams admits having committed the Rainhill murders, and that he was, the perpetrator of the late “ Jack the Ripper ” murders, in England. MarSwanston, utlaa William- - a " has left for ked- and Deeming, .mirne. Sydney, March 25. Mr Williams, formerly steward of the steamer Iberia, is not the man in custody for the Windsor murder, and the leading newspapers apologise for connecting his name witli it. The confession of the accused is alleged to have been made to Mr Haynes, who is defending him. Mr Haynes demanded to know the whole strength of Swanston’s defence, and the latter replied that he would make a clean breast of it. He said he was guilty of the Rainhill murders, but on the subject of the Windsor murder a careful reticence was observed on both sides. Mr Haynes then desired to know whether his client was or was not “ Jack the Ripper,” and Swanston replied that he had committed the last two murders in 1890, but he knew nothing of those previously committed. The prisoner bases his defence to the Windsor murder upon the fact that the crime is alleged to have been committed on the 24th December, while he can produce witnesses that the woman was seen in Melbourne on the 20th, five days later. He will assert that he cleared out with another man.