Simultaneous movements are on foot on the one hand to prolong the strike on the other to bring it to a speedy close. Mr Carnegie offers to reinstate the strikers if they will aban don the Union. A truce is hardly likely to be concluded on such terms. Four thousand men have already re fused We cannot be surprised at this; with a man like Mr Carnegie individual workers would have no chance. It would be in vain to appeal to his sense of justice, while he adopts as a life principle that he is the big fish who lives to prey on the little fishes. He is the representative of a system which the State has encouraged and which the State will have to modify, but in the meantime nothing but a powerful trades organisation will bring him to a better mind. If the threatened stop ca^e of the manufacture of coke throughout the United States be earned into effect, the increasing magnitude of the dispute will excite general uneasi ness and help to bring matters to a climax. The life-and-death struggle which the " Daily News " correspond ent predicts will not be entirely lost if it 'induces the Government of the United States to strike out some line of action whereby these ruinous indus trial disputes will in future be averted, for if continued on such a gigantic scale, it is evident they threaten to bring down the whole fabric of modern society.
Mr Cecil Richard Horvey, who died at Otahuhu on Sunday, waa a younger brother of the Rev. F. Hervey, rector of Sandringham, and chaplain to tho Prince of Wales. Their father was Lord Alfred Hervey. a younger brother of the second Marquis of "Bristol, and uncle of the pre sent Marquis.
