AUSTRALIA NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 92, 14 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIA NEWS.

„.-■■:■• ■•■-■! .-=. •- = ■.».» „ CJ'.- I'- „_. ■:.-■■ [BBUTBIM , TBIXOSAMS.] ■ . ' ( • . , •, ; >■* : AjBAKT, January 12. : The P. and O. Taimanian, with the London mails, Ifccimber 11th arrived at Sing George's Sound this afternoon. , ' . ME^eußNX^Jaiiuary.3l. '; - Sailed this afternoon for the Bluff. Tr ; : ■"■' ; >H 0-Uvl: , Th* Victorian Seamen's Union nave receivod a reply from the New South Wale < Union, promising coroperatioam «9te ,of a strike. The Brisbane Union requested further information before giving a defiaito answer. The masters remain firm;' and have determined, if the strike ex» tend, to lay up their vessels altogether, rather than submit to the demands mi the men. Correspondence is'now passing between the Trades Council and tho shipowners relative to the proposal of the first-named body to establish a board of conciliation for the settlement of tbti .dispute. , ; 'Another great fire broke out tfai.' afternoon in Jones and (Jo's bonded-store at Sand ridge. At the present time it is unextinguisued. Particulars will bet telegraphed later on . . Received January 14, 1.80 a.m. ■■' ■ Mklbottkne, January, 13. - The fire at Jones and Co's bonded store •riginsted near the , debris of the recent couflagratipn. The fire it now extinguished but the damage has net yet been ascer* tamed. ... : The seaman's strike will probably affect 1 fifty steamers. ~ [■ v! The Seaman's Union received an answer from the New Zealand Seaman's Union declining to co-operate, pending the receipt of further iaf«rmati>n from the Victorian" Union. This Day. | Medical authoritiev at the Melbourne hospital state that on Tuesday morning, the day of the Colling wood bauk robjbefy, a. youth came to the hospital, and was treated' for a bullet wound. It is oelieredbj f'the^poUceiKalJiheiindiridual in question is identical with one, of the wouldbe robbers who has up to the pre? *»Nt eluded pursuit. .' Avisukimst January 13. > 1 The search P*rty which has b^en en| de&voring to find traces of the missini men on Clifton hills, report having di* covered two morebodies making, a. "tbtid of five. Four mea are still to be iol counted for. [ „ Sydney, This Day. j % Arrived, yesterday, the Manapouri from Auckjand. . \ The "New South Wales Seamen's Union har supported the cause of the; Melbourne wharf laborers, and the steamer Cheriot is in oonseqaence unable to ship a crew. ~ ' , . Hij /^Smjnene*: Cardinal Meraa will leave yiiy shortly for New Zealand.