AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3605, 8 May 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

. , , Sydney, May (J. A Co-operative Company of those engaged in the Pastoral industry has been formed 'with a capital of £150,000. They have. hußiaesa of a leading firm, ami intend to enter into the wool frozen meat export trade on a comprehensive sculp, aiid erect the largest warehouses in Australasia.

May7< The stock returns'for the year show the number of horses to bo 480,000, being an increase of 19,000; cattle 1,741,000, being an increase of-118,000; sheep, 50,106,000, an increase of 9,608,000. Melboornk, This Day. _A man named Christie, a recent arrival from New Zealand, was burnt to death jn a house at P,uswotth last night,

THE LABOR AGITATIONLondon, May 5, The Committee appointed to inquire into the sweating scandal recommend the extension of co-oper-ativ.B societies and further legislation regarding panjtary arraugementg in workshops, &c, and the*encourage! ment of technical education,

Shaw, Sayill, &n| Co. have given way to the.d'e"rS. 9* tUo sailors that 48 hours stym bis a week's labor while ehipp aro iii port. Mr Burns considers Sunday's demonstration the outopme of the assistance so liberally extended by Australia to the dock laborers whon on strike last autumn.

Mr 0. Bradlaugli hag accepted Mr Burns' clialferjge.tg publicly debate the eighthours question.' '.;■ ■'■', : " The Committee of the House of ! Lords on Sweating reports that the wages paid by the sweaters are inadequate, .and are governed/iby the u9C6ssilies of the workws, The

hours of labor are:. also exceSjjivai The report concludes by iurfirig Parliament;tio inttrfore. ■: j. ■ ;jj .« May' 6, ! The tailors',, strike regarded as a trivial affair/ Th'emackiuislß take tip part in it. : '•- '

The Bill giving' effect to the financial proposals in the Budget was read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of 82. ■:■■-■ . The middlemen, who are generally regarded as the chief cause of sweating, rebut tho aspersions against them. They assert they are not the cause of the evils complained of, and advise' a', stricter inspection :by lOffioials,' ."

■"■'.''.' Berlin, May 6. The Silcsian miners have been jonceded. tho eight hours a day,, jystem. .-.••;'... ■: ■'' ■ r :'\

Tho Government will introduce legislation'to give effect to the recommendations of the Labor Conference, so far as Germany is concerned. "'•".' Bbisbane, May 6. The fighting fund at the disposal of the Labor Federation amounts to I £25,000. ■ . . :, "■ ", ; May 7. Strong support is being offered the union shearers by other trade organi-' sations, and the matter is assuming large dimensions.- ■ , •■:.. . ; - ':