LATER NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3604, 3 September 1890, Page 2

LATER NEWS.

THE POSITION IN WELLING: TON. SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION; railway' SERVANTS, " Wellikgion, September 2. A largo meeting of captains and officers was held yesterday afternoon, when it was decided to form a Shipmasters' Association of New Zealand, to be confined to holders of masters' certificates, junior officers to bo admitted as honorary members, The matter was entered into with great enthusiasm and 82. masters and -10 chief officers signed the membership roll, ■ The Railway Commissioners have determined that thoso employes jwlio break the terms of their engagements | and refuse to perform railway duties as provided under the rules and regulations which they have formally undertaken to observe and obey, shall be dismissed from the service, , The Railway Commissioners state that:—"The rules undor which platelayers and others' are engaged and work on tlie Government railways, provide that every person will, as far as practicable, have specific duties assigned to him, but when required he shall do any other duties which the business of the railway requires. Acting under this rule, the platelayers for many years past, on exceptional occasions, have been called on to load and handle goods, and there is nothing unusual in the present emergency in their having been required to do what is purely railway business," In case the railway servants are oalled out, communication between the Wairarapa and the city will.be kept up by the carters and expressmen who are on strike, each one taking a particular seotion of the road. The Railway Commissioners stato that they have ten weeks' supply of coal in the Fipitea sheds. A large number of Maories have offered their services to the Union Company as sailors. At a speoial meeting of,.the Harbour Board yesterday afternoon the secretary. ; was guarantee permanent employment tc ' the non-unionists hands and also tc engage oasual men,' Up .to the present 18 permanent- hands have been engaged. ■ A produce dealer who had Bold t large quantity of flour to one of the merchants here on condition that he delivered it at the store,was informed

yesterday morning by the head store--man of the firm that if the flour was | taken into the store, all the store- ) men in the city would be called out, ) and the firm receiving it would be ' boycotted. The dealer iu question then informed the merchant of what ■ had taken place, and the latter refused to accept the flour. ) The cooks and stewards on all the Union steamers in port I came out yesterday with the . exception of the chief stewards, who i do not belong to the Union. Both ) the Wanaka and Penguin, which sailed last night, carried non<unionist cooks and stewards, r Owing to the carters and expressi men having refused to handle goods 3 ooming from the wharf or Union Company's steamers, the tradesmen 3 experienced some difficulty yesterday in getting their goods off the wharf, i One gentlemen, who has recently t enterodinto business, purchased an a express, and with a little assistance ■ removed about 15 tons of flour from • the U.S.S. Co.'s ss Kanieri to his i place of business. 9 Mr Joyce, M.H.E., has sent the i following telegram to Mr Harrington s Secretary to the Wharf Labourers' t Union at Lyttelton:-" Sir George Grey and ofchefs think with me that i we shall commit grave blunder to } allow Parliament to terminate next I week before strike terminates, but I dare not stonewall without your 1 direction. Kindly advise." I The Butoher's, Union hayo passed , a resolution to the effect that their , members must refuse to cut or deliver . meat for vessels manned by non- » Union seamen. r Wanganui, September 2, 1 TJio railway servants meet >toe morrow' evening"" to decide'whether ' they will, come'out 05' strike if palled i upon. Individual feeling; is that 1 tljey risk' all if they come out, bat will have t,b I? Ü B OI > ty the Maritime Copoll. Tljero is ) likely to be a great divergence of [ opinion at the meeting. . Auckland, September 2. ) The Auckland branch of_ the 1 Amalgamated Sooiety of Railway . Servants held a>meeting, to-night, li wjten a" njotjon was agreed to express ifull in fcjj.e Sooiety's j exebiitiye in tlie present dispute, and 1 resolved to act apdfog to their j directions. Tho |||ing pledged 1 itself j? stand by suspended J at iiytteUtm and to demand their re-in : statemenc, { ; Oamabu, September 2,. ' 1• A meeting of the local branch of , the Railway. Servant's Union was held 1 tonight, at whioh it was ■ decided to . fyaljgt regarding a to : morro\?. " dH'pi.TOpßp?, 2, , 1 . The Unipp; 3ap| : 'cl§j:|p loading 1 the Colao did very good work. ' At 3 380p m, she-:left the wharf .and 3 anchored in the stream. Her Crew 1 left her at 780 pm. A large meetipg q( tho Cliamber of

I < |)ir Commerce tbia^afternoonvpiased the followingmotion" That w urgent telegram be sent to tbeComtoiiasionera of Railways etating that the Chamber while the, oiroumsjanoes which'ootapel<tlietn^to-;ial(e;raotioD ) are.prejarfid to find labour to carry on the trade of' Lyttelton, provided the Oommissioners are prepared to continue to deliver cargo alongside the vessels in port; and that; the. Chamber will be glad ot an urgent reply on the point, to enable them .to make suoharraQgementsaaareneceasary to prevent the stoppage of ilie trade.of Lyttelton. ; . s Dunedin, September 2 . The Mayor, Mr Jolm Roberts, saw Mr Justice Williams and Sir Robert Stout to-day, and both consented to ' act with him in trying to effect a settlement of the dispute. . The men arrested'yesterday for being concerned : in the disturbance were brought up to day. : Wm Reid Kaye, a railway employee, for throwing stones, was fined £B,' or four days on the first charge, £5, or seven days on the second. John King, for conduct likely to provoke a breach of the peace, was fined £3,' or three days; Jas Webb/ .wwfined!£B,] and and ordered to pay £2 for damaging a constables uniform, or seven "days, and £3, or four days, for disorderly conducVthejentenceSto be,foreign to each' oilier/ Jas Johnston, tor 1 obstructing Inspector: Moore,; was i Md¥si:6r>eyen : idayß. Mr Carow then addressed, the men, stating \ thaihad the magistrates the inclination 'they!'could: convict them and Bend;tliem;to-gai)Kfofethree months : withouttlie option of, a : fine, The' to:'deal with Buoh • pfFehces -as indictable ones, and commit the' accused to the Supreme ■i Court, '