AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright jPB'Rv UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Hobabt, February 23. Sailed — H.M.S.S Orlando; Eapid, Goldfinch, Lizard, and Boyalist for New Zealand. Bbisbane, February 22. A large force of military has arrived aft Clermont and other districts where disturbances are threatened by Unionist shearers. All is quiet, and there appears to be less enthusiasm manifested by the Unionists. This Day. The Government " has a proclamation calling upon the Unionists to lay down their arms. All the hotels in the disturbed district have been closed. The Shearers' Union has decided to await; the return of their delegates to the Conference at Adelaide betore taking any further action. Adelaide, This, Day. The Shearers' Conference has voted' £1000 to the shearers in Queensland. Sydnet, February 23; The defalcations of Bradley, manager of the local branch of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, who has absconded, are alleged to be close on £50,000. Melboubne. February 23. Three Sew Zealand offices— the Colonial, the Equitable, and the New Zealand—hud a risk oE £500 each on McKenzie's coffee and spice mills. This Day. Thomas Phelan, a locomotive driver, has been sentenced to death for the murder of his paramour, Ada Halton, at South Yarra, on January 15th.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 104, 24 February 1891, Page 2
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