AUSTRALIAN SEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 105, 5 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright f PEB UNITED MESS ABBOCI ATION.j Sydney, April 4. Fire trains are now running daily to Barrier Ranges, near the Broken Hill mines. Labor is unprocurable there, and it is suggested that the Government should send the unemployed from the National Park to Broken Hill. Melbourne, April 4. A party of five men left Fort Melbourne last Friday on a fishing excursion. The body of nue has been found drowned, but nothing has been seen of the rest. His Excellency the Governor was accidentally ridden down, and thrown at the review on Monday. Result: a broken rib. Melbourne, April 3. A boat was capsized in the harbor today by the wash of a passing steamer. One man was drown sd. Sydney, April 3. The child affected with small- pox still lies in a critical state. No further cases are reported. Cross, the bogus sweep promoter, was to«day fined LIOO and costs. Notice of appeal was given. ■ . ■ Two new-born infants were picked up on the outskirts of the city yesterday. At the inquests held to-day verdicts of murder were returned in each case. One of principal building firmß having paid off all the masons in their employ, are now offering 10s a day, instead of 11s a daj, which is the ruling rate, alleging that they have lost so much lately that they cannot pay the ruling rate any longer, and that masons must give way as well ns other trades. A meeting of the trade societies will be held to consider the. position. The revenue returns for the year are published, and show the revenue for the twelve months ended 31st March at £2,542,267, being an increase on the revenue for the previous year of £725,000. The revenue for the January-March quarter falls short of the estimate by nearly £'60,000. Brisbane, April 4. The revenue for the quarter ended 3lst '. March was £707,716, showing a substantial increase under every head.