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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2991, 15 September 1891, Page 3

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(IIY KI.EUTKIO TELKIiKAI'II.—COI'YUII'.UT.) Lonlion, September 12. The Trades Union Congress insists that tlie Factory Act should extend to laundries and to trades where women and children are employed. The Trades Union Congress has passed a resolution that better sanitary arrangements be made with regard to workshops and recommend that the ace at which children be employed as half-timers be raised to II! years. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters is contributing 18s a week to each striker, and threaten to maintain the struggle for two years. Mr Howard Vincent, who has recently been in Canada advocating the policy oi Ihe British Empire Trade League, will visit the Cape in the same interest. A controversy is going on iu the Daily Chronicle respecting the charges of drunkenness against the Australians, made by Mr David Christie Murray iu his in tide in the Contemporary Review. Mr Francis Adams, of Melbourne, in reply to Mr Murray, asserts that the native born colonists are remarkably abstemious, but that Anglo-Australians are terribly intemperate. I'.uus, Sept"mber 11. The CoMimiif.ee ol the Chamber of Deputies consider with the vi.-w to pro t.ect bondholders interested in the I'auania Cinal, that if Government inter nationalised the (Jamil, and the French subscribe the bulk of the money, the work would be completed. 13kl'.shk,i.s, Sept mbcr 11. Aveling, Jlockar, and Gilles, the leaders of the British faction at the .Brussels Labour Congress qnarrelied violently over ir.aitera connected with the proceedings, an.l Avelhii! was sum moned for thrashing his colleague. CAU'ITTA, September 11. It in reported that an alTray has taken place on the frontier betw 'en the Russians and the Afghans. HiiXCKiiNli, S 'piCllllKT 11. H.M.s. Archer inched the attempted riot at Hankow. Owing to the shallow water in the riv.-r the gunboats \vc.\-b unable to restore order at Tcluuig, where noting is taking place. Ni:w YotiK, September l'J. Mr .1, G. Maine, Secretary or' State, declines U> guarantee O'Donovan Kossa Freedom from arrest in the event of his visiting Ireland. Rossa replies that American protection of Irish citizens is all humbug. Mavim.a, September 11, The Governor ot the L'hillipiue I.v.lands claims to have defeated the natives in a fierce battle at J.amas, and to have captured IS guns. The loss on the Spanish side was small.