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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 37, 4 January 1889, Page 2

The late Prince Schwarzenberg, whoso landed estates were so enorracm as to be railed the Sen warzen berg empire, left a fortune of 60(><K),O001oIf., from wbic^i a sum of 400dols. was bequeathed to the poor of Vienna. That was his sale ohnritible bequest. Alfred Williams, colourel, is the pa-it >r of the Antiorh church in E Igewood. Ga. 8 ime time ago hi formed a co-operative store among bii parishioners, with hims'if as storekeeper. Disspnsioos n on arose. The store wa9 put into the hands of two receivers. Thursday morning the preacher was found id the woods with over a bun ired buckshot wounds in his bo ly, inflicted by the members of bis congregation. He will die.

Ihe workmen engaged on the I iffel Tower have, says a Home pare, hit upon a ve*y happy notion. Their object is natural and laudabo— to raise their owu wages. Their argument is sj good that M. Eiffel has accepted it, and agr^e i to raise their wages by ha'fpenny an hour all round. 1 his is the argument : '' The higher we go, ttie higher our wages ought tob>." The french are a logical nation

Our working people have much to complain of, but the Sweating Commission can pioiuce nothing approaching in horror to the evidt-n<c an to the condition of the worke sin Holland which has been taken by a Committee of the Dutch Uhamb3r. In Holland the average factory day is from thirteen to fourteen dots, while they often work eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty -six hours at a stierci . The smaller bakers of Amsterdam work sixteen hours a day for live days a we«k. On Friday and Saturday they work tweaty-six hours without intermission. 'Ihe small tnilors work with 'heir wives and children to midnight, working sometimes twenty-four and evtn fort> • fight hours on end. The result ia that the Commifsion find* that tin workman is deterioia ing. Infant mortality is ioc cat-ing, technical improvt mints are neglected, and the inventiveness of workmen is d'Btioytd. That is the Nemesis of unrestricted competition.— Pall Jdall Gazette.