THE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 8615, 16 September 1890, Page 2

THE STRIKE.

THE POSITION IN WEL. : ,LINGTON. ; :

THE PROOEILDINaS OBDEBLY.

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[Br TELEfIEATH.]

{United Proag Association.)

Weluhoiojj, Monday evening.

igain a large crowd assembled at i Queen's, wharf at five o'clook j-night, when the free' labours left work. Between three and four hundred special constables supported the police in maintaining erder and escorting the men to their homes, The proceedings were very orderly with the exceptionof a little hooting. The authorities have decided* not to call out the whole of the speoials in future, but only two or three detachments each evening. : s . Several mora etoremen returned to work today, and said others will jfolloW. *"•■ ; .

, /Workon the wharves- is being, carried on quietly and without any disturbance. The coal from the Kennedy was only allowed. to _be landed on the express understanding

it was for the Gas Company. Timjuio, Monday. The M gave fourteen days' hard labour to a lumper who, when half drunk, had assaulted a fireman and two passengers of the Omapere in the Btreet'on Saturday night. The three seamen of the Alert wore let off, as they were not concerned in the actual assault. The B M said betook the view that the assault was a drunken.freak rather than a Union :

demonstration, or he would have inflicted a full penalty. The police said the Union had no sympathy with such proceedings, Auckland, Monday, Ralph's miners went out on Saturday because 150 tons of Binall coal, sold to a local merchant on condition

that it should not be given to the Union Company's vessels, was supplied to the mail boat Zealandm. This vessel, the merchant considered, was not a Union Company's steamer. The men returned this morning on assurances being given that this would not happen again, The orew oi the steamer Riohmond came out to-day.