LABOUR STRIKES.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2749, 13 February 1879, Page 2

LABOUR STRIKES.

London, Jan. 7.—The strike of miners inSou'L Yor-shire and North Derbyshire will not be; nearly as large as anticipated. Not more than . G,OOO operatives will go out. The strike has be- ' ; for a reduction of wages, or work must close, aa o«»nian wire can be obtained cheaper than the English can be manufactured. The men e&y -.' the reduction is excessive. Lon'.on. January Bth.—Tho strike of collies;; lias advanced tho vric^ of coal, and Stocks are : lo> . A compromise is expert-d, Tiie ship-builders of the Wear and TeatgiTß no.ice of a reduction of -wages. London, January Id.—The Midland Haihyay autHoiitiea say tliat-iwftlvi; of the goods guard! in London tiave resumed work, and that tie remainder are dcliueraLiug whether to return to work or not. Barus'ey, January 10.—The coal minerß ate not in favour of anbmiUing 10 the proposal of ll | arbitration. Tlu-y. oon.ider that the case.does Hi not admit of urguinent. L ;eds, January ](!.—Ti.e miners at the rock collieries st-uck tlu-< morning against a tenter cent, reduction of their wages. London, January 13—The foundrymen, ship-, builders and house-builders o£ Bangor and in; that vicini i-y have struck Six hundred weavers'1' at Carlisle have struck The strike will effect other departments of the mills. A strike haa. commenced in the wine trade at Warrington, and fifteen hundred men are idle in consequence. London, January IS)—The North Wales Mireis' Association resolved to vote £7 to every member ot the union wiio desires to emigrateto America and £11 to cmutratu to Australia, f Notices were posted on by the&)lt* Ttv.de Employers' Association, ia iron..sblp-.. building yard* and foundries in Liverrodland, tho district around, of a reduction of wageairfj i j,~ seven ana a Jmlf per cent after the 3flsto£ January. It is thought the men wiil Btrike; At a meeting of the Great Jsottherh Railway .• employes today (Sunday), the men pledged themseive3 to oppose .my i eduction ofwageß,. The decision oi Hi.' Diicctora of therpalTfill be made known on Tuesday. - ..:. f. Six engineering firms at Hud dersfield locked out their workmen for relusiug to conSßntWan •: extension of hours of labour. ..-■,••.._->.<. The arbitration of the rrifFrrencesbetweeuempioyers nnd, employee of the Cleveland and North of England iron trade rcsu'tettiiiade' cision that tlie ni<iii *ecepr the 5 per cent.reduction of wage«. 'i he cotton i.. ills of Nelson, ■■!*: near Burley, give no ice of a reduction; ':8p8)9 vg mills tiiere have stopped altogether; also at•;; j Padihamand Whittefieid. ..:.■■ London, January I(s.—Colliers in the Barnsley district aio taking their tools from the mines, having determined to reject the abitriraoit scheme. '" The conductors of the Midland EsilvrW, ; have surrendered to the demands of the company, and the strike has betn i.tteily defeated, j A family of four pcraoiis at Darlington, England, in distressed circumstances, recentlyW an end to their troubles by stopping up tM chimney and lighting a coke fire ia their room.; COLLIISKY EXCLUSION IN" WALESCardiff January 14.—An explosion ocenrream Dmas colliery, Rhondda Valley, last nignt. s : About sixty persons are beleved to be knlea. London, January 14-2.30 p.m—The'greatestexcitement prevails in Ponte'y Prywd. Itissaiu there are 58 men in the pit Ihe explosion was,- , very violent, and it is feared none of the men have escaped. The bottom of the .shaft a temporarily impassable. !so attempt atresoue can be made yet. -. ■- ■■„„.-■ LONDON, January 15th. Eighty yavds of the root of tne Dmas mine at the Bliaft fell in i-ince the exp'osioc, stoppiM ventilation, and explorers cannot enter tn° mines. There is no hope of rescue for tneß»J men entombed. „_„ A CROWUE O BRIDGE BREAKS DOWN. London, January loth.—A despatch^nom s| Philipopo'in states that a railway train reUm» the River Arda on Saturday, and that a Kussmh General, several other officers and2oomen,Were; I drowned. The accident -was caused by tDe breaking down of tha bridge. __ . London, January 14.—Crighton ; BroUicfc, merchants of Newcastle on-'J yne, have fauea. • | Liabilities, £97,500. , , aa u fi McKay & Kirkwood, extensive wholes^stationers, printers and publishers, Glasguwv ' have tailed. Liabilities large. nn , o m\ I The liabilities of the Conush Bank are £658,(W ! being much less than supposed. The uneasines in Cornwall Is allayed, and the drain upon Otnei ; | banks considerably decre»sed. iii<«^i» A dispatch from Rome states thatnegouano™ are now carried on between Cardinal wuw> Papal Secretary of State, an.i Bismarck mrwwithout tho intervention of the NunpiO ? < | Munich. Bismarck's professions are frien*Kj | 1 but the impression prevails that little morei wui * ibe obtained from him unless the Socialist op | proves insufficient. • _ „ i,oc A council of the Irish Homo Rule League flus g caUed a general meeting for the 4th of February, to consider the resolutions of the activesecww j on the policy of the Irish Parliamentary paw, and for reorganization. „ ~A i,j r Lord Beaconsfleld has been confined to ua 10Londo.^J^ouary 20.-The British Governing j id encouraging emigration to the colonies» means of Uding over the present I*" 1 . difficulties. w^-toto ' * The marriage of the Duke of Connaugftt is w ; take plaoe at Windsor Castle on the ljfw w_ March. It was postponed a mpnth.on acw»» of the death of the Princess Alice. ,«j|. n d The Library of the Birmingham a? d,^ aiS,t ■ Institute was burned. It contained tne^ d . complete Shakespearean collection in tne ww . numbering 8,000 volumes. Comparatively w i. j books were saved. _, ,„ r^asne H The Council ot the liish Home Rule WJJ has called a general meeting, for me *%M party, and for reorganisation.

The Zulu King has expressed his willingness toWindersome ot the Persona fl^ mS° d** b,X '•Ttalie" says the eniycl'cal letter is xne com mencement ota crusnde against modern instttnPntH suffered from rheunvitic pains when she t Herliu for Hamburg, and the* sible for her t > appear m tho latter city at tne toSTT«ntaha, sent a p'enipotenti-iry to Paris to arrange the difference* with HTance. The JJuke of Kriinbu g will shortly be ap. JnuJ \Amiml of tho Canada station. P Wth onf exertion, all the Cardinals consuUcd by the Pop« upon the subject, favored r n tiinli(4 Dsrticipating in elections. So January 16th. - A St. Petersburg letter dated January 11th, says that a collision occurred on the Warsaw Railway thirty miles from St Petersburg, on the 10th iiist, by which 20 Dersons were lulled, 32 mjuivd, 21 dangerously. at Petersburg, January 9th. -The plague has caused a general panic in Astrakhan and Saratov A correspondent of the "Globe" writes: The plngue commenced in a village m the dist.ricr oi! KnoUuevHk. The disease was mistaken for tv. Ims. Wii on the weather became warmer, people died lik. Hies; the dead lay unburied in the Ht-ects. January 10th.—The plauge has reached Earatofi n. At Naratzm 173 deaths have occuiTed. Tho in rtality is estimated at ten per cent, of the population. Tho plague at [Astrakhan is assuming serious proportions. Ihere have been four iiundred deaths from disease up to January ith , St. Pete, sburg, January 18th.-Tho Agence Russc" siys: Tho proposal to extend the funct;ons of the Commission for re-organization oc Eastern Romnelia has received the assent or all the powers, but such prolongation does not constitute a violation of th-. Treaty of Berlin, lhe Russian administration of the government of Eastern Roumelia also is thus prolonged until the labours of tho Re-orgadization Commission are concluded . The Kharkoff Veterinary School has been broken up and the Kietf University closed in consequence of tho riotous demonstrations of students.