AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 42, 21 September 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copy righ t I PER UNITED I'KKSS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney,- September 39. < Floods have left Demhquin North in a most deplorable condition, and the Syj&ne depicted is one vast .sheet- of water. Several narrow escapes from drowning are reported, the inhabitants only being rescued in boats. .' ' , . -* , September 20. The Trades and Labour Couucil has decided to promote a bill prohibiting the introduction into New South Wales of foreign or British workmen under agreements or -oontracfcs. Weaver, who was sentenced to death at Fiji for the murder of Capt. Greenless, has had the penalty commuted to imprisonment for life. . Al bLBocBNE, September 20. Goyornment has received information that at a meeting of the colonial AgentsGeneral in London, it was 'decided to ask the Imperial ■ Government : to intervene to prevent the concession to an American Company of the exclusive right to land telegraphs and cables in Hawaii. The House last night pasto ! a resolution increasing the duty, on woollen manufactures to thirty per cent. McLean's motion for raising the duty on maize, beans, peas, and hops was carried and also the motion increasing the duty on wheat to 2s lid per cental. Adelaidb, September 20. Bishop Rennion has petitioned the Archbishop >of Canterbury not to consecrate Canon Smith Bishop of Sydney, 'till the question of the validity of his election hus been settled.