GENERAL ITEMS.
Bocoived Jiuusry 14, 9.30 a.m. Newcastle, Saturday. Several leading miners' lodges have rejected rates proposed to be paid by the colliery proprietors under the new weighing regulations. It is a foregone conclusion that a majority of the lodges will reject the proprietors' proposals. Sydney, Saturday. A meeting of carpenters and joiners decided to demand 9s per day or strike on Monday. It is understood that the majority of the employers are prepared to concede the increase. A quantity of sulphuric acid took fire on the steamer Xyrian on the voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. There was some panic among the passengers till the stuff was thrown overboard. The vessel was only slightly damaged. Three armed men stuck up Mr Robinson, a Singer Sewing Machine Company's agent, near Helensburg, and robbed him of over £8. The A.M.P. Society's new business last year amounted to over three and threequarter million pounds sterling, the largest since 1892. Each individual colony showed a substantial increase over the previous year, aggregating over .£600,000.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 16 January 1899, Page 3
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170GENERAL ITEMS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 16 January 1899, Page 3
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