NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 33, 28 November 1840, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

ABSTRACT - OF AN "ACT FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF SERVANTS, LABOURERS, AND WORK PEOPLE." So much of Act of Geo. IV., cap. 9, repealed as relates to servants refusing, neglecting, or absenting themselves from their work. All artificers, manufacturers, journeymen workmen, shepherds, labourer , or other servants refusing or neglecting to serve the term or their engagements, or returning or leaving work uncompleted, or absenting themselves therefrom or refusing to work during the ordinary hours of work, may be committed to gaol or some other house of correction, there to remain for any term not exceeding three calendar months, and to be kept to bard labour for the whole or any part of the said term : and any person convicted as aforesaid shall, moreover lorfeitall or such part of his wages or pay as shall be due to him from the party coim.Jaining as shall seem reasonable in the discretion of the Justice before whom the case may be brought. And whereas differences arise relative to wages between the master and servant, and it is desirable that such differences should be settled with as httle delay as possible, be it enacted that, in cases were m> specific agreement for wages has been made between master and servant, where the sum demanded shall not exceed the sum of thirty pounds, it shall be lawful for any two or more Justices to summon the parties concerned and direct the payment of such sum as shall appear to them just and reasonable, and in case of non-payment thereof the said Justices may direct the same, with costs, to be recovered by distress and sale of the master's goods and effects. Persons fraudulently hiring or engaging themselves, and obtaining money in advance of wages, and afterwards absconding or refrain" to perform the work they had engaged to perform, or to proceed to the places where they were engaged to be employed, may be committed to gaol or any house of correction for a term not exceeding calendar months, to b • kept to hard labour for the whole or part of the said term, at the discretion of the said Justices Justices may upon the oath of master's complaining, punish misdemeanour or ill behaviour oi servants in employ, by commmitting the oftendmg party to gaol or house of correction tor a term not exceeding three calendar months, to be kept for the whole or part of said term to hard labour, at discretion of Justices.

Two or more Justices may hear and determine nil disputes or differences between nvister und servant, and make award in such cases at Jheir discretion. Such award to be enforced by execution against {roods, effects, and property of parties against whom award is given, or by arrestand imprisonment of such party, if <» male, for any time not exceeding three calendei months. And whereas i( is just and expedient that the attendant expences should be born by tlip parties interested, and not by the public, he it hereby enacted that it shall be lawful for the Justices to assess the said attendant expences, and that the amount so assessed be paid by the complaining party if he does not prosecute, the case, or, otherwise, by the party against whom iiwaul is made, Provided, however, that if either of the parties be unable to pay, the expenses be borne by the other party, and, in default of payment, amount of expences to be levied, under warrant of Justices, upon the goods or effects of par y so failing to pay. Provided no sufficient effects be found, the party failing to pay be committed to gaol for a pvnod not exceeding three calender months. Females not to be committed to gaol or house of correction under this Act. Appeal allowed. No conviction under this Act to be quashed forwiintof form or removed by writof certiorari into the Supreme Court of the Colony. No conviction to take place under this Act unless the complaint be made within six months from the time the offence shall havn been committed. Act to extend to New Zealeand.

On the evening of Monday last, a meeting of the Paisley Canadian Emigration Society was held in the Philosophical Hall, Abbey Street; ami William Barr, Esq., of Drums, having been unanimously called to the chair, it was moved, that "although the Society cannot accomplish their purpose of emigrating to Canada this season, the Society still continue embodied as the Paisley Canadian Emigration Society, and continue their exertions to get out in the spring of 1841." To this motion certain resolutions were moved by way of amendment, to the effect that as the islands of New Zealand were now erected into a British colony, and Lord John Russell had declared his intention of applying the Wakefield, or South Austialian principles to the colonization of New Zealand, which Captain Hobsou had intimated Government intend forthwith to do, the Society should memorialize Lord John Russell for free passages for them and their families to New Zealand. The amendment was carried by an overwhelming majority, and a memorial was adopted unanimously. — Glasgow Argus. • It is rumoured that Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay is likely to be removed from the War Office to Ireland. Lord Normauby, as we stated a week or two since, is to go to Paris, as Ambassador to the Court of the King of the French, and be succeeded at the Home Office by Lord Morpeth. Had Lord Howick remained firm in his adherence to Ministers after his revolt, the vacancy at the Home Office was intended for him ; but his Lordship- having again revolted, and the "family quarrel" being now, to all appearance, irreconcilable, Mr. Macaulay is to be the man. — Scottish Standard. The accounts received a day or two since of the alarming scarcity and dearness of corn in the interior of Russia, together with the unfavourable prospects of the forthcoming harvest, are fully confirmed by advices receivesl via Hamburg. We have a striking instance of the promptitude and desire of the Imperial Government to apply an early remedy to local calamities, by the fact of an ukass, or decree, having beeu published by the Emperor Nicholas, allowing the importa'of foreign corn, duty free, into all the Eastern parts of his territories. — Courier. It is manifest from a leading article in the "Times" this morning, that the Conservative party would be much disconcerted by the rejection of the Canada Government Bill, and that the settlement of the question is at least as desirable for them as for the present Ministers. After alluding to the possibility of a Ministerial resignation, and the difficulty of forming a Conservative Cabinet, the "Times" says — ** In no degree connected with or implicated iv the mere party struggle here referred to, but speaking simply with the frankness and coolness of lookers-on, we shonld esteem it an indifferent specimen of party tactics if the House of Lords were bodily to fling out this bill; because, even were "the Ministers to be flung out along with it, the question is obviously a very ticklish one, how far the Conservatives could be at once prepared to succeed them. — Spectator. For several days past, ihe coach direct from Paris has brought us whole families of Germans on their way to Havre, where they are to embark for America. So considerable is the number of these emigrants, that the ordinary vehicles from Paris to Havre were found insufficient to convey them, and the authorities of the Messageries Royales sent some of them by our diligence as often as any places in it chanced to be vacant. — Dieppe Paper.