AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 99, 12 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By E'ecLric Te'ej ?oh. — Copyright I P E K VS|TiI)PA KS•« A S»OC « .A. T ! ON . [ Melbourne, February 10. Owing to the burning of the cloakroom at the Spencer street Railway y Station passengers have sent in claims" to the Department amounting to ; February- 11. The Miners' , Association have forwarded a further donation of £"200 in aid of the Denniston (N.Z.) miners. Annesley has been scratched for all engagements at the Victoria Racing Club's Autumn meeting. .Ai picture which ; is believed to be Titan's "Venus and Cupid" has been discovered; here. It is to be sent Home for identification. Adelaide, February 11. The new cable arrangement comes into operation on April Ist in the event of termination of the agreement at the end; .of the year the old rates willbe revertedto; excepting the public rate which will be 8d per word instead of 9s 4d. At the Sydney Conference this month an effort will be made to get New Zealand and Queensland to join with the other colonies in their guarantee. Brisbane, February 10 The Rockhampton shearers have held a meeting, at which resolutions were passed deprecating the refusal of the pastoralists to agree to a grand open conference. It was asserted that the introduction of free shearers is calculated to provoke a serious breach of the peace. Over 1000 men are idle. Sydney, This Dny. As the representatives of Western (Australia ?) to the Federal Convention will be unable to attend until the week after the date fixed for opening, the Government that colony has asked that the Convention should be postponed, but the request is not likely to be granted. The Tasmanian Government favors the postponement, but the other colonies are prepared to adhere to the original date. A letter has been received Fnm O Con nor, statin r that he is willing to row WcLe.m fur lOOodols,, or 50'jO1oIs. if for the championship, either race to be rowed in Americi 1 .