LABOUR ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6065, 26 September 1894, Page 2

LABOUR ITEMS.

» Pib Electric Tbjuobaph— Ooftbiqrk [Psa Pbiss Absoouhoh.] JRaoeived 11.35 a.m. September 25th. {Sydney, September 25. About a hundred unionists m the WiU cannia district burnt the drafting yards on one station, and destroyed three mile» of rabbit fence. They then visited another station and smashed the pumping machinery to fragments and fired the engine house. The police extinguished the fire, arrested 24 men, and seized ft quantity of firearms and ammunition, Melbourne, September 25. Mr Turner finds himself m a difficulty with regard to the Labour party. Should 'he include one of ita members ia b» Cabinet he would risk bis own re-election. It is expected that Me T. Smith, who 1 sympathises with the Labour party without being actually connected with it, will receive a portfolio as & compromise. I Mr Trenwith, Labour leader, has been offered the Chairmanship of Committees, but refused, contending that the party should be represented ia the Cabinet as ! is iv the new Sydney Ministry.

Received 1 a.m., September 26th. Sydney, September 25. A Btasarittg outrage is reported from the Bourke distriot. It ia alleged that a party of men destroyed the fodder sheds by firing them, and also destroyed the artesian well piping. A posae of police has been despatched m pursuit of the perpetrators.