To-day's Developments.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5948, 29 September 1890, Page 3

To-day's Developments.

fI'KK I'RE.-'S ASSOCIATION. — COI'TKIOKT.]

(Received September 29, 11 a.m.) LONI'JON, [September 28

The dockers are powerless to boycott tho .nf;nmii>K Australian yes-els, and it in not likely t.liat any attempt to do so will be made.

The policy of (-oer-'.ing dockers and others to Mibscribi; to the Australian strike fund fins been abandoned.

SyiiN'ky, This day Soiiio dismay has been caused by shearers v.-lio are freo selectors by the discovery thut tbeir holdings are liable to bo distrained upon, aw it is anticipated that tho pastoralists will sue them for breach of agreement, MKi.ii-nmsK, This day. Lieut.-Colonel Price explains that the order he gave to the Voluutui'i-H to " fire low" in tlio event of the men being called out to suppress rioting , was meant to disable and not to kilMho rioters. Lieut.Colonel I'riiio lias bcou censured by the Commandant.

fI'EK rUESS AESOCIATION.]

Inveucakoiix, This day

The Ooro yanner.s' Club have passed a l-Hs-ilutidii htroiifjly emlor.-ing- tho action of thf Railway Commissioners in tho labor crini». Wkixinuto.s', This day. During- thu prt.-ii-nt week tho Hail way Ommihskmers will rc-uitif the regular net vices, on the most w.nUiern lines, tho traffic having gradually improved till it is a little only below tin; voimn,; before the strike. Business on the "Wellington lines in uls.-j increasing aufiiuiently to justify an early resimiptiou of tile full service. Vho gasworks urn receiving one hundred toiis of codl, being part of tho Orowaiti's '-■tiiio, and thit>, with tho stock on litind, wilf last about a fortnight.

'j ho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, arm tlits Now Zealand Shipping Company lef isu to be represented at tin: labor u<>nicruijuo lit Wellington. Tho Employe™' Association also decline. In a letter to tho Premier they say tln.-y ciuiuot agree to the disc.us.-ic! , . by uuy uoafurenco of tliuir riyht 1o employ hen "labor, hut us soon as tho unions abandon boycotting and other practices they may take part in the cont'fpillro. An itifonii'uion was laid npiinnt two men for assaulting a free laborer on Saturday uight.