Irvine Express. — 1883-03-02 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PROPOSED RESTRICTION IN TELE IRON TRAD/L.—A movement has been originated by the National Ironworkers' Association of England which has for its object the restriction of the output of manufactured iron, more eapeeially in the north of Tingland and Cleveland district. The primary object of the movement by the workmen is to keep up wages, which, varying with the prices of iron, are threatened with a serious fall. Unlike the restriction proposed in the coal trade, which is regarded generally as hostile to their interest by the employers, thatwhich is being initiated in the iron trade will, from all that can be made out, have the sympathy and support of the bulk of the iron manufacturers, and it is only taken up by the workmen after the employers have endeavoured, but unsuccessfully, to apply the same principle in the plate trade of the north of England, which forma about three-fourths of the whole finished iron production. The employers movement collapsed because two large firms refused to co-operate. If the men should decide on working shorter time, owing to their solidarity and the compactness of their organisation, especially with the favouring feeling of the large proportion of the employers, there is no doubt that the principle will be strictly applied. AMERICAN journals report that paper, employed already for car wheels', can be utilised for the manufacture of rails in place of steel, which has almost displaced iron. It is said in favour of the new material that the coat per mile will be less by one-third than that of steel, and it will last much longer, being almost indestructible. There is no expansion or contraction from heat and cold, consequently no loose or open joints, and, being so much lighter than steel or iron, the rails can be made longer and connections perfectly solid, making the road as smooth as one continuous rail. The adhesion of the drivers of the engine to this material will be greater than that of steel, consequently the same weight engine will haul a larger load. There will be a great saving of fuel, and the smoothness of the rails will lessen the wear and tear of rolling stock. The rails are made wholly and entirely of paper, and so solid that the sharpest spike cannot be driven into them. With reference to the use of this material for car wheels, it is announced that the Northern Pacific Road has made a contract with the Allen Paper Car-Wheel Company for paper car-wheels necessary for the passenger, dining, postal, sleeping, baggage, and pay cars, as well as the engine and tmder trucks. This contract calls for 4000 wheels.  " was in atly in a state *vine, and loted only xpreaelug eases adopted the  e departure by  SALMON disease is reported to still prevail to an alarming extent on the Tweed. During the past few days a large number of greatly diseased. fish have been taken out of the water and destroyed. THE sum of £BO,OOO has, it is understood, been left to the Edinburgh Infirmary by the late Mr Duncan Vertue, of 3 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, who died about a fortnight ago. It is a condition that the bequest should be capitalised, and the interest only used. THZ man Qrquhart, who brutally kicked his young daughter to death on Saturday night in Dundee, gave himself up to the police on Tuesday, He had been lying in hiding some distance in the country, and had suffered acutely from hunger and fatigue. He was judicially examined before the Sheriff, and committed to prison. He hat frequently undergone terms of imprisonment for assault. Ledin CARLINGYORD, in the course of a speech at a Liberal meeting in Coventry on Tuesday night, stated that he formed one of the Cabinet Committee who drafted the bill for dealing with crime in Ireland before the perpetration of The Phienix Park murders; and he showed that so aaxious were the Government to 'push it forward, that Mr Gladstone had even offered to eompromisathe closure question in order to clear the way.