LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2351, 3 May 1892, Page 1

LABOUR.

London, April 28. The Federation Board now sitting at Durham recommend the miners to resume work. Mr Randalls, M.P., has introduced into the House of Commons a bill providing that trades may if they choose adopt the Eight Hours system. The measure is drafted on the lines suggested by the Trades Union Congress. It is expected that the non-associated mines in Durham will be allowed to reopen, in retaliation for the action of the associated owndrs. April 30. The Durham miners return to work in the non-associated collieries, at the former rate of wages. IMPERIAL POLITICS. London, April 28. The supporters of female suffrage are delighted at the narrowness of the majority against them. Sir J. Gorst, Sir W. Lawson, Mr Balfour, Mr Leonard Courtney, and Mr Justin McCarthy, voted with the ayes. Mr Gladstone, Sir V. Harcourt, Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir James Fergussson, Sir E. Clarke, Mr Chaplin, Mr Bryce, Mr Labouchere, Mr Fowler, and Sir M. Hicks Beach, voted with the noes. In the House of Commons, Dr Clarke moved that England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, should be allowed to legislate in domestic affairs, leaving Imperial questions to the House of Commons. The motion was defeated by 20 in a small House.

THE EAINHILL AND WINDSOR MURDERS. London. April 28. In his affidavit Edward Deeming declares that his father cruelly treated his wife before the birth of Frederick. He also says that his father always disliked and illtreated Frederick, who proved to be a stubborn and untractable youth. Returning after long wanderings in distant lands Frederick exhibited noticeable eccentricities, and showed a strange conceit of himself—a trait in his character which had not been observed before he left home. His father, Edward goes on to say in the affidavit, attempted to commit suicide on four different occasions, and eventually died an imbecile. Mrs Edward Deeming has made an additional affidavit partly confirming the account of Frederick’s delusions with regard to the appearance of his mother, but denying that she ever heard Frederick assert that his mother prompted him to murder females. Owing to the fact that Mr Lyle has withdrawn from the defence in Melbourne the London solicitors decline to cable the contents of the affidavits made by Deeming’s relatives until a guarantee is given for payment of costs. April 29. Albert Deeming denies that Frederick or any member of the family was ever insane and under restraint. He condemns Frederick for slandering his dead parents, and also denies that he was ever known as “ Mad Fred.” Melbourne, April 29. The appearance of Williams the Windsor murderer is much improved by the growth of beard and moustache. He displays a good deal of nervousness. May 1. Nothing fresh has occurred at the Deeming trial. The exhibits in the case are so numerous that the court resembles a general store. It is expected the case for the prosecution will conclude to-day. The prisoner’s demeanour is that of a man who has abandoned hope. He looks careworn and dejected. Williams in his defence has adopted a new line. He will assert through his counsel that Miss Mather, whom he married in England, is still alive, and that she cleared out; that the body found at Windsor was that of another woman, who might have been murdered six mouths ago ; and further, that the body was so decomposed that it was impossible to identify it. Counsel, though not bringing evidence to support these contentions, submits them to the jury for consideration. The medical evidence has strengthened the belief of the detectives that Williams is identical with “ Jack the Ripper.”

The Eakl ok Glasgow.— Under date March 18, the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes .• —“ The offices of the New Zealand Agency were yesterday en fete, being prettily decorated with terns and palms, the occasion being a gathering of representative New Zealanders now in England, to meet the Earl of Glasgow and bid him God-speed on hH departure to the Britain of thq South. The invitations, except in the case of the Australian Agencies), \'veye confined entirely to distinguished New Zealanders, and pesuited in a remarkable assemblage of some of the leading' merchants, railway and shipping magnates, now in London, Among those present were Sir Julius Vogel, Messrs Thomas Salt, John Tinlino, L. and D. G. Harper, A. Clayden, P. Paithfull Begg, H. vqn Ifaasi, Strickland, and many others. The Earl of Glasgow was accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Captain HunterBlair, and his private secretary, Colonel Pat. Boyle. His lordship looked remarkably well, and was evidently pleased and gratified by the gathering in his honour. He is a man of good presence and of affable manner, and possesses, I should judge, ail those North British virtues which are sure to endear him in a colony where that element rather predominates. The gathering was a most pleasant one, anil the now Governor created a decidedly favourable impression.”