THE GREAT STRIKES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 345, 31 August 1889, Page 4

THE GREAT STRIKES

THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS. [raoM ora “extea.”] Losdos, "August 28. The Kaikoura has 32,000 and the Fifeshire 5,000 caresses of sheep on board. It is feared that the latter’s cargo will be destroyed unless eoal can be obtained to keep the refrigerating machinery at work, but the Kaikoura is out of danger for the present. The epidemio of striking is expected to extend to the provinces. At Southampton the men employed at loading and unloading vessels are already tgauming a threatening attitude, and the regular dispatch of the Australian mails is imperilled. It is suspected that the Socialists are planning a national labor revolt. Forty thousand rents in East London were not paid on Monday, and the landlords are powerless to obtain their money. The gas men have threatened to strike and eave London in darkness, but they have been warned that they will be held criminally liable unless a week’s notice is given. The lightermen, coalmen, firemen, engineers, porters, jam and biscuit makers, carters, and postal carmen are now all on strike. AU the scavengers, milkmen, printing laborers, and 7000 ironworkers have joined ths strikers. Later. The Government have conceded the postal carmen’s demands. [A question of importance is, Who bears the loss ef the meat that is now rotting in the holds of some of the vessels ’ One opinion given is to the effect that the insurance companies are liable. The clients of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company may rest assured on the point, for Mr Bright, the Gisborne agent, informs us that the insurance policies on their goods cover all risks until the landing is completed. —Ed. St and abd.]