LATER NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1912, Page 3

LATER NEWS.

BRISBANE, 10 a.m. At n rnpofine of tho City Council +lio Mnvnr ptntcd that the council employees who struck would not bo re-employed without his nyvprovnl. NEWSPAPERS AND MEAT "OFF." Members of the Ilockhampton Typographical Society, also the butcher,s, will strike on Wednesday. The Rev. .Mr Gibson distributed large quantities of bread to indignant (? indigent) parishioners. An order has been issued further dosing all hotels in Brisbane till .Monday. EXTENSION OF THE STRIKE. Nine engine-drivers at Charters Towers have decided, by a large majority, that there is no local rear son to join the strike. A mooting of delegates from the Townsvillc Unions has decided to strike. All shops are closed, and the streets crowded. Two constables arrested a man, and then the strikers attacked them. Sticks and stones were used. The police were reinforced, and succeeded in holding their man. MELBOURNE, This Day. Tho Industrial Registrar of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court has received two declarations from South Australia in support of the question of a compulsory conference concerning the Brisbane strike being submitted to tho President of the Court to-day. " TRUST THE PEOPLE. " Senator Pearce, of the Federal Parliament, in referring to Queensland's request for military, declared that he could not forsee the possibility of military interference ever being necessary in connection with industrial mattens in Australia, so convinced was he that the good sense of the people always would prevail.