AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1415, 6 May 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, April 30. The Premier informed a deputation from the Freetrade Association that Government intended to adhere to their proposals as submitted, and would not alter the value duties, against which there is a good deal of opposition on the part of the mercantile community. The unemployed ars dissatisfied with the wages paid at the relief works, and are again agitating. Holt has been committed on a farther charge of falsifying certain accounts with the Bank of New Zealand. Melbourne, April 30 James Lender, one of the imprisoned miners, was rescued on Wednesday night after being confined in the Duke’s Consols mine for fourteen hours. He was unhurt. Brisbane, April 30. It has been resolved to wind up the n entral Queensland Meat Company at Rockhampton. Adelaide, ApiilSO. The Board appointed to enquire into the recent railway accident found that it was entirely caused by the negligence of Poin tman Forrest, and that the signalman was grossly negligent. Ernest Mincbio, chief teller in the National Bank, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling LI,OOO. Tfae President of the Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting, spoke very hopefully of the prospects of the colony, and deprecated the absurd misrepresentations which had gone abroad.