WORK AND IMAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7062, 14 January 1891, Page 4

WORK AND IMAGES.

[Special to Pbkss Association.]

LONDON, Jan. 12

A settlement of the railway strike is, from present appearances, remote. The North, British Company are suing two, hundred and twenty strikers '£ox leaving work without notice.

[Per Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Jan. 13,

At a meeting of the Butchers' Union, various letters were received in regard to Colonial federation, but the Union decided in favour of local federation only, bo aa to control their own funda instead of their being spent at a distance. The cabmen of Auckland have resolved to boycott the Queen street wharf. A flhort time ago the Harbour Board imposed •a toll of sixpence upon each cab going on to the wharf. This was done with the object of regulating the traffic. The hours for collecting the toll were understood to be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but this evening instructions were given by Captain Fisher, the wharfinger, that the toll was to be collected when the Sydney steamer Wairarapa arrived at five o'clock. The cabmen strongly objected to this, and at last they resolved that they would not go down to the wharf to meet the steamer, thus allowing passengers to bring their luggage to the head of the wharf. About forty cabmen are engaged in the boycott. Two others who refused to join them were hooted. Afterwards, about thirty cabs were driven in slow procession through Queen street, as a demonstration against the Harbour Board.