TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 13

TRADES AND LABOUR.

LONDON. April 2. The Lanarkshire coal miners have struck over the eight-hours question. April 5. For sevcnl vre?ks past the stable bova a!> Newmarket hive been on strike for higher n,i:^. They have now, however, a^ceT)le>l the coinpiomiic offered by the employer I.1 '. PARIS. April 4. A general resumption of woik by tha strikers has taken place at Marse lk'f> SYDNEY, April 2. The ccml lumpers rc-urne work to mo~row Out of fivf rules passed by the owner* the men have agreed to two, rejected tA^o, and amen led one. AUCKLAND. Apiil 2. Nearly the whole of the bricklayers in town aie now on strike. It i* probable that the employers will biing the matter before the Conciliation Boaid. A pnl 3 Thiity men were dismissed fiom the Waihi mine on Saturday It is icported that 30 more will be "dismissed Mioitly. The company are shoitcunig hands to curtail expens-es.

The Hastings coircspon Vi't of tha Oamaru Mail states that .Mi- Wha:ton, an old resident cf KaLanui, d.ed suddenly on the Ist inst. from apoplexy. The British Bulldog rues the \ia\e;

Undaunted tar is he, An angry billow's oft bis grave,

Can't turn him from the sea. The hardships of a sailor's life

He can s=o well endure. When coughs and colds are always rife, With. Woods' Great Pefpeemint CtjbH.