AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 38, 6 September 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. I PER i/NITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Sydney, September 4. Thirty vessels have discharged their crews in consequence of the .Newcastle strike. One of the principal southern coal mines was discovered to be on fire today and it is suspected that some of the men on strike are concerned in the affair. The fire was fortunately extinguished before much damage was done, Owing to the exertions of Air Buniker, Minister of Lands, a conference between the coal masters and the miners on the matters in dispute ha? been arranged. In the Appeal Court, Holt, tbe ex* manager of the Bank of, New Zealand here, appealed against the. decision of the lower Court handing over his interest in the Bosehill estate to the bank. The appeal was dismissed. Melbourne, September 4. There are now fully 1000 wharf hands out of employment owing to the Newcastle strike.. At & meeting of New Zealanders held here to-day, resolutions were passed condemning the representation of the miner* , als, timbers, and natural products of the i Colony at the Melbourne Exhibition. Hobabt, September 4. Sailed, 3.20 p.m.— JLaikoura, for New ' Zealand. BbisbaNE, September 4. In July last a difficulty arose between ) his Excellency the Governor and his adi visers in consequence of the former dei dining to release a prisoner upon the , advice tendered by the Ministers. The i Ministry have resigned.