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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1404, 26 January 1899, Page 25

According to the “Journal of the Department of Labour,” just issued, the special boards appointed in Victoria under the Factories and Shops Act have determined that the minimum wage payable to any person engaged in the preparing of shirts, collars, &c., shall be 4d an hour, and that the lowest wage in the furniture trade shall be Is an hour instead of 7s 6d per day of eight hours which was the rate previously fixed, and that the lowest wage paid to any female with over four years’ experience in the furniture trade will be £1 per week’’* of torty-eight hours. A few more plumbers and glaziers, if duly qualified, would find employment on the drainage - works which are now being carried out at Melbourne. There is an opening for a few experienced miners at Carisbrook and Bendigo. Berlin is traversed from end to end by the Stadtbahn, or Government railway and possesses also the Ringbahn, which corresponds to an Outer Circle railway both ot these systems being laid out with a view to strategical as well as ponular utility. But these facilities for urban locomotion are still found insufficient and it is proposed to establish a network of overhead electrical railroads after tho American plan. Considerable opposition is being offered to the scheme astendhS to mar the Architectural beauty nf+u g German capital, and efforts t - he made to compel the promoters to cam? levd. /T e hV?hey^efuse b to o do unles^ ', i . •-*i i • .. ,r ‘i. i •