AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 101, 17 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. { Brisbane, This Day. An uneasy feeling prevails among the residents of Barcaldine and Clermount owing to the proportions assumed by the shearers difficulty, and the Government has issued orders for the enrolment of a number of special constables. This, however, will not prove an easy task as many of the settlers sympathise with the stand taken up by the Unionists. The police force has been strengthened and the men supplied with Martini rifles. Exciting meetings of shearers have been held at various centres, where the speak, ers were urging the Unionists to destroy the stock and burn the stations on which , the free eheanrj are employed. The kidnapping of free shearers was also advocated at some meetings. The Union--1 ists have 1 ought up all the a nmuni ion in Barcaldine. The authorities have expressed their determination to preserve order at any, cost. Professor A. B. Allen, who has been investigating the Koch cure for consnmption on behnlf of- Victoria, has arrived here en route for Melbourne. He declines to express an opinion. as to theefficacy of the remedy until he has submitted his report to the Premier of Victoria. ■ The value of the imports for 1890 was .£8,262,000, and exports .88,827,000; the wheat export for the same period amounted to 7,775,000 bushels} and flour to 66,000 tons. Sydney, February 15. The schooner Helena Davis capsized while crossing the Bellringer Bar, about 300 miles north of here, and Captain Hackman, a passenger named Somle, and one of the crew were drowned. x . G. E. Labertouclieie. the defaulting clerk iv charge of the Imperial lie'nsions, committed his frauds by drawing pensions of men long ..smce dead. This Day. The barque Alicia,, bound from New-, castle to San Francisco,; with, a cargo of. coal, sprung aleak during a seyere. gale, which 'she eucountered off North Cape aflf New Zealand; She put into Apia, where she wan abandoned to the. Underwriters,