AUSTRALIA NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 35, 10 September 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIA NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright PBEUTEB'S TBLEGBAMB I : * MiytfNEY, September 8. The long-contested railway arbitration case, Bourke and Mesharry y. the Government of New South Wiles, which commenced on April Ist, hasi just been brought to a conclusion. The original claim was for L 104.000, and the award; of the arbitrators has been fixed at L 26,500. The steamship Bellinger, chartered by the Federated Seaman's Unions leayes for Auckland on Monday next. > : Dissatisfaction is expressed by the Shipowners' Association at the owner allowing the vessel to be chartered. , „".;. .. : : ; ; A woman has been burnt to death at Silyertdn. . September 9. The fire which occurred hist night on the Petersham railway viaduct was caused by an accident to a long gcols train. Whilst . the train was passing through Petersham an axle of one of the trucks broke, and seve-al trucks were thereby precipitated over, the embankment. Tlie- Ropd^s caugi>t fire, and a j number of trucks r as 'well as a portion of the viaduct, wore destroyed. v None of those in charge, of the .train suffered any injury. '' Bbtsbane, September 8 Parliament has accepted a tender for 67 miles of rabbit fencing to be erected on the borders of hew South Wales. The Shipping Company's It. M.S. Aorangi arrived at 8.30 a.m. to-day, en route for Wellington; 1 ,