AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1325, 26 August 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney. August 20. Daring the voyage of the Wakatipa “Mrs Osbo'ae,” a second-class passenger, jumped overboard and was drowned. Tbs vessel was steaming full spaed at the time, and although a boat was lowered quickly, the woman was never seen again. Sue appeared very melancholy boring her stay on Board. The schooner Mary Pashley was run Into off Newcastle by the steam tug Gamecock, and sank. All hands were saved. Four miners have been sentenced t<i various terms of imprisonment for rioting at Woolongcng. The bricktnaker’s strike continues, and no efforts are made towards a reconciliation .

Alfred Reynolds, charged with poisoning his wife at Newton, h»s been committed for trial.

A serious disturbance occared in connection with a shearers’ strike at Netley station, near Armidale. Several arrests were made.

H.M.S. Raven arrived yesterday from the New Hebrides. The f rench are still in the group. Fever is very prevalent amongst the troops. Melbourne, August 20.

Two hundred Wa tiam watches have been seized ky the Customs authorities for non-payment of duty across the border. Ge rge Urquhart, an old Colonist, and one of the pioneer eqnaiters, has died ; aged ninety. Government have decided not to start relief works for the unemployed, as their doing so would only be an inducement for men to fl jck there from other Colonies. There is nothing fresh in connection with the iron workers’ lock out at Launceston.

A six days’ and nights’ walking match is to be commenced on Saturday between an American walker, Aarriman, and Scott, of Gew Zealand.