The Cotton Factory Times. — 1893-02-24 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

LABOUR MOVEMENTS ABROAD.  Hugh McDonnell, one of the leaders of the strike riots at Homestead, char4,ed with the murder of a non-unionist labourer, has been acquitted.  A desperate fight occurred at Chicago on Saturday between a number of Polish and Hungarian workmen employed at the steel mills there. The men, after having been paid their wages, began drinking heavily, and ultimately a conflict arose between the two nationalities. Knives, clubs, and sticks were the weapons need, and in the &lee six men were injured, three of them so seriously that they are not expected to recover.  Lngarian  Mr. McKinley, the author of the famous Tariff Bill, has been placed in a very embarrassed position throneh having endorsed the paper of a friend, who has now suspended payment.  From Winnipeg, Canada, cheering news has come. The first mouth's crashing at the Sultana Mine, in the Lake of the Woods district, has yielded 1,8970 z. of gold from 426 tons of quartz, and another rich strike has been made in the centre of the Rajah. A block weighing over 3owt., which has been despatched from the latter mine to the Chicago Exhibition, is said to show • perfectly phenomenal display of free gold. Experts declare that the reefs in this district are larger, and promice to prove richer than any yet worked in South Africa. The rush of miners to Rat Portage still continues.  Reports received from Warsaw draw a gloomy picture of the situation in the Goverment of Cher. son. The distress prevailing there seems to be even greater than it was last year. To stave off starvation, peasants who have already consumed or sold the whole of their grain ere now reduced to killing their remaining cattle,. The Governor has acknowledged the receipt of contributions from several charitable societies, amounting to upwards of 100,000 roubles. - rimwts publishes 904110 stab - year 1892.  The Jetirs.i des Lasts publishes some statistics about the %Vilma in Franco during the year 189' Front these it would appear that altogether there were 276 strikes, affecting in the aggregate 108400 workmen. The duration of Clime strikes was from one week to three months. la ninety-one oases the workmen gained their oterset; in 106 oases they obtained nothing; whilst in sixty-earns cases a  eflected between the mseierrs and  --A new irupetusbaa been given to the colonisation of New Zealand, the high passage rates to which place have in the past prevented many peopie from going to the colony. In the ease of a person with a large family the coat of transport makes a considerable bole in a small capital, and many who would otherwise emigrate, to the manifest advantage of themselves and the colony, hesitate to incur the necessary outlay- To meet cases of this kind the New Zealand Shipping Company has responded to a proposal made by the A.gent-General for N eicr Zealand, that a reduction in the passage rates shall be made in cases recommended by him. Substantial reductions will be made on existing rates, and a special intermediate class will be established for families, but such redactions will only be made by the shipping company on the recommendation of the Agent-General. For the present the Agent-General is only prepared to recommend reduced fares in the case of persons possessing fixed incomes, or a capital at least of £lOO, with £5O additional for each child over 11 years. _