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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 28 October 1895, Page 2

A London correspondent writes :—A company was registered a day or so ago with the comprehensive title of “ New Zealand, Limited. ’’ As anything and everything is being turned into limited company shape nowadays, it occurred to mo that Mr Harrison Davis and Joseph Howard Witheford, Esq., might have conceived a noble scheme for the colony’s benefit; but when I looked up the register I found that the promoters of “ New Zealand, Limited, ” were entirely un> known men, and that their object was to acquire, improve, colonise, farm, cultivate, etc., lands in— West Africa and <:hen-hen 1” The italics are mine. The capital of this misnamed concern is £IOO, in os shares. The “ limited ’ is very appropriate.

A New York correspondent writes : One of the most, remarkable strikes that has ever taken place in this city is ended, and the 12,000 tailors, who struck two weeks ago, arc all back at work again. There has not been a sign of disorder or violence, and the strikers have got all they demanded because their demands were Just. God be thanked, the vile and debasing sweatshop system is abolished, never, I hope, to return. It was a, i shocking system of slavery, never having any parallel in this land before. The victims were mostly Russian, Polish., and Hungarian Jews of the most class, having no knowledge of our Mguage, and who were dominated over by countrymen of their own, who, bavin" 1 been some time in the. United States, took advantage of their; countrymen’s ignore mice of our system of labour, and ground them do,\\ r n so that a man for 15 or la liours’ labour could only earn from 75c„ to 80c. (Tod) a day. Besides the question' af scant \vage.s was the horrible tortureof the sweat-shop system in which thesepoor creatures worked away their mise;v able lives.