Labor and Strikes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3488, 18 April 1890, Page 2

Labor and Strikes.

Berlin, April 15. A Bill reclassifying-trades and providing for tho disputes between employers nnd ' employed beinij referred to arbitration will bo introduced in Ibo Beiclißtag.' ViENNa, April 16. Trade Btrikos aw spreading ibrotigboufc Austria. Berlin, April 16, As the.day for holding the great labour demonstrations approaches, the The work. . men employed at Liebig's ironworks in this city were refußecfa holiday on" tho first of May, the dato fixed for the demonstration, and in consequence the Socialists blew up a portion oAtbe buildings with dynamite. M*~ Berlin, April 16, Tho Gorman Socialists recommend that a holiday should be observed' wherever feasible, and express a desire to avoid any conflict with the authorities. Paris, April 16. The organisers of the labour demonstrations in Paris deprecate holding n procession and advise that holiday meetings, should bo held -, instead. ■■•'.'.. ''-0-\

BREVITIES.

Wintry weather. Capture of a distillery plant. Sweating Commission at Wellington. Peculiar revelations. Mr E. S. Hawkins nominated for Education Board byMaateiloatiohool Committee.

A yacht raco for the America's Cup _H '»heing arranged in London. Tim latest newß from Bourko, N.S.W. is that tho railway lino is in danger of being washed away. A report is current that Sir F, N. Broome, lale Governor of Western Australia, will succeod Sir G. W. des Vceux as ot Hongkong. A telegram from Delngoa Bay confirms tho news of a Portuguese expedition, 1200 strong, being despatched to attack tho Mpondo, Shire. . Stanley has left Biindisi for via Paris, His reception in y0 London takes piaco on 2nd 'prox, and the Prince of Wales will preside on ' the occasion, ''What a Messing it is," says a hard working native of tho Emerald Isle, "that piijht never comes till late in the day, when a man is tired, and can't work any moro, at all, at all," A colored dude chanced to he among tho seated pussengcrs in a Washington horse-car. A young woman of his own color entered, and

ho immediately rose and offered her . She gracefully demurred, you tir,' of your goal." ". Oh, no depravity, miss," was his reply; " no depravity at all, I prefer to stand," .. " We' can live economically, I know," said tho young wife, affectionslly, ''To login, you can stop smoking, resign from the club, give no more wine ■ sappers, aud nover, nevei treat anyone," " Certainly to bo sure," said tho young husband faintly. "And what will you do dear?" "I? Oh, I'll mend my gloves myself ?"