AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 68, 25 November 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPER UNITKD PKESS ASSOCIATION. | Sydney, Norember 22. A. motion by Mr Dibbs in the Legislative Assembly, setting forth the expediency of introducing a Bill to establish Courts of Conciliation to deal with dis* putes between capital and labour, was carried on the voices. Ibbot, the Swedish faster, has now completed 29 days, and. is confident of finishing his task. H.MS. Royalist has returned from the New Hebrides. She punished several villages concerned in the late massacres. Ihe captain states that there is abundant room for enterprising Englishmen to settle, but until the land tenure and the iater»island labour traffic questions have been further looked into, Englishmen will hesitate to compete with foreigners who are working under more advantageous laws. November 24. An hotel at Haymarket, which was in the course of demolition, collapsed to* night, and partially wrecked an hotel opposite and shop adjoining. So far as is at present known, no one was fatally injured. Melbourne, November 24. The horribly-mutilated corpse of an old man has been found in the Yarra riyer, but there is no clue as to the person at whose hands he met hie death. The question of establishing a mail service between .here and Yancouvei Island, via New Zealand, is engaging the attention of Mr J.Gr. Duffy, PostmasterGe eral. > Brisbane, This Day. The Government will probably propose a scheme for devoting a portion of the emigration vote to bring out Italians and Germans to work on the sugar planta tions in the north. J. G. Duffy, Poitmaster»General, has received a communication from the N.Z. Government, stating that in view of the state of their finances they must reiter* ate their refusal to contribute to the cable guarantee. '