AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 98, 10 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

» By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jPKU UNIWI) PBBSS ASSOCIATION.} Sydnbt,. February 8. Zabertouche, a clerk in "the. Pensions Department, has been suspended. -His defalcations are believed to amount to between £7000 to £10:000. ' ' This Day. Mr Eady, Chief Commissioner of Railways, and the Eon. R. White, M.L.C., have left on a visit to New Zealand. Hobaht, February 7. The R.M.S. Arawa, from London, arrived at 5 o'clock yesterday, and sailed ' at noon to-day for New Zealand. . She ' brought 38 passengers for Australian ' ports and has 74 for New Zealand. Mklboubnb, tebrusrjr 8. A fearful accident happened is the harbour yesterday afternoon. Two of the crew of the steamer Elingamite were in a boat alongside their vessel wheo a passing steamer jammed them against it. One of the unfortunate men was orushed into a shapeless mass, his remains presenting a horrible si.s?ht, while his companion though not killed, was seriously injured. This Day.'" Therj is considerable. cfeafcisfaciion

among the federated seamen and othsr unions respecting thenew shipping articles, and trouble is likely to arise. Atolaidk, This Day. The Colonial Treasurer has decided to allow the balance of the loan to remain on' the London market. till the 14th ins', Brisbane, This Day. An extraordinary tide visited Cairns and Townsville, and the low .lying parts of the last mentioned town were flooded. The shearer's unions are very exasperated over the importation of free shearers from Victoria and New South Wales into Queensland. At a meeting of the shearers at Barcaldine, about 350 miles west of Bockharapton, it was decided to procure rabbits and turn them loose on the banks of the Barcoo and osher rivers. Several owners who employed free shearers have been threatened that their stations will be burned. Pkrth. February 9 The bnrqu" Shornilie Bank, laden with railway iron,' bus been completely | gutted by fire. " The origin is unknown, | bu f it commenced in the luzurcite.