AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 51, 16 October 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright |PKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.} Stdnby, Ootober 15. Sir H. Parkes made a ministerial statement last nighti Referring to the strike he said the colony had already lost more material wealth than if an enemy had bean at its gates The strike had now assumed the form of an open enemy to the constituted Goyernment of the country. What had taken place was little short of a revolution and yery little further would plunge the country in undisguised war. Someone must be master, and further, added the Premier, "The Government of the colony will be master." Mr. Dibbs accused Government of a breach of faith in sheltering themselves behind the labor strike and expressed a determination to force an appeal to the country. Melbourne, Thin Pay. Replying so a question in the Assembly as to whether the Orient Company refused to ship batter in the refrigerating chamber of their steamers, the Minister of Lands said that had to be dene owing to the demands of the meat trade. He trusted to be able to make satisfactory arrangements with the Orient, P. and 0. Co., and N.Z. steamers to obtain ample Bpace. Brisbane, Thi« Day Bills imposing duties on dividends and spirits, and the Customs Tariff Bill, have passed. Adhlaide, Oct ,15. ■The barque Barnnga, which has arrived from Ldndon, reports that in the vicinity of the equator she sighted the Argomene, bound from 'Frisco to a port in the British Isles, with her bows stove in below the water Jine. She was only kept afloat by her collision bulk heads. The Captain of the Argomene reported that he had been in collision with the British vessel Davenby, which was on the voyage from

Antwerp to Valparaisev The Davenby Was struck by the Argomene and sank in seven minutes- Seven of her crew were drowned,, bet the rest managed to scramble on beard tbe> Argotnene which was making for Pernam&ucoin company, wrl&v a, French, vessel.