THE ARGUS ON NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1889, Page 2

THE ARGUS ON NEW ZEALAND.

[united pbbbs association. I Melbourne, sth October. The Argus this morning publishes a leading artiole reviewing the last session of the New Zealand Parliament, in which it states that Sir Harry Atkinson, the Premier, deserves the utmost credit for his retrenchment polioy and for hiß determination to dispense with borrowing bo far as is possible. Referring to Sir Harry's ideas of retrenchment, tho Argua said that, stringent though they may be, they will probably mark a turning point from the ruinous system of finance introduced with the tinsel rhetorio of Sir Jnlios Vogel, to a more equal and rational development of the country's resources. Judging, however, from recent evouts, the Ministry require another and more rallying policy. It adda that tho public economy will not lead to Sir Harry's permanent popularity. It may give a lively confidence during depression to have a man with moral firmness and courage to faco the situation, bnt such gratitude is liable to pass away. It is absurd, the Argus thinks, to attribute the prosperity of New Zealand wholly to tho Government, and it goes on to say that the action of the Bank of New Zealand in writing off its losses baa givon an impetus to commerce. The Argus adds :— " Still more is this prosperity duo to the good season^ oxperienced in New Zealand," and it oonsiders that the New Zealand Exhibition, to fee held in Dunediu next month, will bring thousands to the colony who will discover the mcanß of advancing tftido betweon that and the other Australasian oolonies. The London Labour Affitation. * THE SURPLUS RELIEF FUNDS. AGITATION AMONG 'BUS DRIVERS. ANOTHER DOCK STRIKE. THE MOVEMENT SPREADING. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT. | UNITED PKKBB ASSOCIATION.] London, sth October. Mr. John Burns, loader of the recent strike admits that £47,000 was received from outside sources, and doolares that any surplus will be need to alleviate distress arising from tho strike. Spoaking at a meeting of tram and 'bus drivers, Lord Rosebcry, who was chairman, said that tho overwork of the employe's was a soandal, and he considered that tho recent strike of tho dockmen had shown that labour possessed power to resist oppression. Therefore ho wished every success to the Drivers' Union which it was intended to establish. 6th Octobw. Four hundred of the dock labourers havo struck, on the ground that the oompanies are giving undue preference to " blacklegs." (Rooeived October 7, 1 p.m.) London, sth Ootobei. The strike movoment is spreading in England.