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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2062, 7 August 1885, Page 2

_ A now Sunday law'has juatbeen brought : into operation in Austria, and one consequence of it is that newspapers do not print Monday morning's issues. The new law (writes the Vienna correspondent of the 'London Telegraph,') decrees that on U Sunday all trade.labor should rest, Co% positorj «nd printers being likewii? regarded as industrial laborers, it becomes . impossible fpr newspapers to produce their Monday editions. ' Not as a church celebi-ation. of Sunday, but as a day' of . recreation for the workman, hag the legal Sunday rest been decreed. Its duration is fixed from 6 aim. on Sunday till 6 i.tn: on Monday.' The law has been well • received in industrial and working oiroles although in pome rejects; it wilj rendw . the competition pf Aujiftan industry with •-L Germany more; difficult, for a law of this | kind, does not exist in Germany, nor does ; tlve normal working day of-eleven hours •' ' etiitin Germany; whereas if is actually ' introduced in Austria. ,Tho public hop not taker umbrage to-day at the nony appearance of the morning papers; but in Btirring times, when important events occupy the attention in a higher degree?■' the newspapers will have to think of Bom'o . plan to satisfy the ourioßity and the want ■J" t)£,.the public on Monday. *. .> • '