INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4724, 19 July 1890, Page 1

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

! (BY TEiBOKAiHT.) WELLINGTON. July 18. A libel action, arteing out of the late Petone Woollen Mills dispute, was heard to-day. D. M'Keuzle, secretary of the uuuide onion, charged G. A. Bailey, a shoemaker, of Petone, with exhibiting in his shop window a document reflecting on the plaintiff. Accused was committed for trial. The ex-operatives of the Petone Woollen Mills have written to the Trades and Labor Council demanding farther strike pay, and threaieoing, id default of compliance the institution of legal proceed, ihgs. The ship Otaki, which arrived to-day, saw nothing of the barque Assaye, now five months ont from London. CHRISTCHURCH. July 18. . The steamer Kahu arrived to-day from Chatham Islands with news that on June 13th the house of Lanuzs, at Oneuga, was burned through a defect in the chimney, and Mrs Pnrchbw, a dressmaker, who was sleeping upstairs, perished in the tire. Trouble is anticipated between the Trades and Labor Council and the Christchurch Gas Company. The latter, in rearranging the staff, discharged all the lamplighterß (10) and re-engaged six, taking new men in the place of the others. Four not re-engaged are prominent in the Amalgamated Labor Union, and think they have been got rid of on that acconnt. The secretary to the company says the company have merely re-engaged the most suitable men, and that he knows nothing | about the question of union or non-union men. AUCKLAND. July 18. At a meeting of the Trades and Labor Counsil a letter was read from the Maritime Council in reply to one sent from the Auckland Trades and Labor Council. Mi Miller, secretary to the Maritime Council, stated that he had formed a Council, as the various trades of New Zealand had not given their Bnpport to the Seamen's Union in the fight with the Northern Steamship Company. The struggle cost the Seamen's Union LI 4,000 and all the assistance they got from the trades in the colony was LBO. To enanre better assistance for one another they had formed a combination now bo good that they had power to enforce their demands owing to their authority over ships at sea. GISBORNE. July 18. Toe Rotomahana, which left Auckland at 1 p.m. yesterday, has not yet (8 p.m.) arrived, and there is no word of her from 30 miles np the coast. The passage usually occupies 24 hours. GREYMOUTH. July 18. It is reported at Brunoer that the Miners' Executive will recommend a deduction of twopence per ton at Brunner mines and slightly more at Coal Pit Heath in the hope of satisfying the demands of the proprietors, who can effect reductions.