NORTHERN COMPANY'S OFFICERS RETURNING.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 63, 13 September 1890, Page 2

NORTHERN COMPANY'S OFFICERS RETURNING.

UNIONISTS DENOUNCING OUTRAGES. AFFAIRS AT NAPIER. LUNITID PBBBS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 12tb September. A nambera of offioers who left the Northern Steamship Company's steamers have waited upon Mr. Ransom, the manager, and intimated their willingness to come to work at once. The deputation was favourably received, and their names onrollod on the list of applicants for employment. This Dat. The ftteamcr Richmond arrived from the South Sea Islands early this morning, and started to discharge her cargo of tropical prodnce at the Railway Wharf. The crew, however, gave notice of their intention to strike, being oalled on to do so by the Seamen's Union in consequence of the Sarah Pile inoident yesterday, when the Lumpers' Union refused to touch the cargo, and Messrs. Donald and Edenborough had accordingly to engage non-Union hands to get it oat. The Unions will boycott the Richmond if possible. No difficulty is anticipated in obtaining a non-Union orew. Ltttelton, 12th September. The Jane Douglas, for Kiukonra, and the Akaroa, for Akaroa, were the only steamer* which left Lyttolton to-day. Cheibtchdech, 12th Septeml«r. A mass meeting of Lyttelton Unionists this afternoon unanimously passed a resolution disapproving of the recent disturbances, and repudiating any knowledge of the Bame, and deciding never to countenance anything of the kind, as befog a disgrace to Unionism and opposed to its beat interests. Napier, 12th September. The Star of Victoria ma easily loaded by free labour to-day. The stevedores assert that the meat was never shipped so fast. The strikers looked on with some crumbling at beine deprived against their will of work at which they could mako over a pound a day. There was a good deal of rough chaff, but a strong feeling was manifested against only one man. who had seceded from the Union, saying he had a wif« and family to keep, and would not be deprived of work at the beck of the Maritime Council. The stevedores working for the Tyser, Shaw-SaviU, and Now Zealand Shipping Companies' lines to-day signed a contract under a bond to employ only non-Union labour in the futnro. They say they were compelled to take this course by tho Unionists on the Star of Victoria being oalled out after the Maritime Connoil had promised to load that vessel. They also allege that this action wu in direot contravention of Bale 2 of tho Wharf Labourers' Union,