TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 25 October 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN, (United Press Association.) ' LoNDONrOotober 22. The St, Catherino Docks Company bave given notice of their intention to employ free laborers after November 4, when the existing agreement with the dockers lapses, The union* isfs, however, will not be debarred from employment. October 28, Piecework has been abolished at the Wost india Docks, The Sunderland branch of tho shipping federation has under consideration a proposal to lay up all vessels under the control of thai branch.

Murphy cables to Mann-" Strenuous efforts to. crush us; don't yield; certain ultimate success." The dockers in consequence ore making increased efforts to afford assistance* Sydney, October 28, The strikers tore up a private railway line leading to the Bullambi colliery, doing damage to the extent of £I2OO. . The telegraph line was also cut, and a portion of the Goreni* ment Railway damaged, ; The owners of the colliery have now armed a lorce of freo laborers, The Government has decided to issue a Eoyal Commission to inquire into and report on methods and proposals calculated to prevent tho occurrence of conflict between capital and hbotu or mitigate their disastrous consequences. Speoial attention is to be devoted to the constitution of Conciliation Boards. Sydney, October 24. In additien to the damage done to the line of railway leading to Bullambi colliery, a large number of trucks were set free on the steep tramway incline, and owing to the points being wedged the trucks were thrown over an embankment and i completely demolished, An American SigamUt- •

Dotectives aro seeking for Georgo W- Siloox, who is wanted for bigamy, and is beliorod to have escaped to Europe. • Ho has bcoa married fbur times. The first was in 1870, when • he became tho husband of a well known lady in society in Syracuse, In 1881 he went la Vieuna as United States Commissioner to the International Exhibition held that year; la connection with his position there he made a considerable Bum of money, and subsequently took up his residence in Bremen, where ho be came the agent of a well know n> American manufacturer of farmingimplements. Here be married anheiress, having previously, separated from his wife, This lady died in the end of the year, leaving a ohild whom «ion of the fortune left by" its&ather. • He returned to America in'lßßß, and ' married a third wife, anofher jjtfiross; '• With hor lio seltled in' Biodklyn ut during hqi*:absence ou' a.''visit, 1 moved all her furniture fro|j

and doped with a young lady of gcent bcnuty, From ™opß ho wrote to his third wifo that- ho would never return to America, but after h wedding tour on theOontinont ho did return ntid took »p his rosidonce in Now Jersey, Ho liext moved to Philadelphia, where lie W8 discovered by ono of his (Inserted wives, who applied for a warrant for his arrest.

Singular, Not Plural.

In the Berlin law Courts, a porson, who was caught raWmndod, has boen proceeded against for stealing roses from a prettily decorated grave. The ncoused produced in court a copy of tho inscription on tho tablet over the grave, which runs as follows; "Travcllor, pause a lnontnt at this spot, and pluck n rose in rememberance of what I was," Tho defendant, on tho strength of this, contended \ that ho was acting simply in accord(ance with tho expressed wishes of tho • deceased; but tho judgo thought otherwise, The inscription on tho ■itabfot stated plainly that the traveller to pluck a rose. Therewusno mention in the legend thathe should take ft handful of loses from tho bowor, So the learned judge forthwith pronounced tho defendant guilty,