AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 117, 26 March 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPISR tJ^ilXiiX> PBKSS ASSOCIATION. | Sydney, March 24 A life buoy has been found near Jervis Bay marked "Ilainbow, Auckland." Ib is supposed that the vessel went down with all hands last November. Mr Kingston, of South Australia, was examined by the Labour Commission today, and set forth the objects of his Conciliation Bill. So far as Adelaide was eoLi'..'er;ied his opinion was that the late sii'iii6 was provoked, and confciuued by the masters. He did not think the shipowners were justified in opposing the. affiliation of ehips's officers to the Labour

Unions.; Both sides should have freedom of contract. '■■■'....,.' . March 25. Mr ■)• V, Fitzgerald, who recently visited Eii^ianri on behalf of the Labour Unions in Australia, in the'course of a sijf-ech which, he delivered before the Labor and Tr.-eles Uouncil hist night announced Jhatdu-ing an interview he had with Sir Geor-je Grey the latter unfolded to him fi scheme of nationalisation of C'.il rain.-s which he intended to submit to thn New Zealand Parliament next session. • / Tlie remains of the wreck near Kempsey have been iilentifiod as belonging to , the barqu • Rose VI; Melbouentk, March 24. Sir John Pender wires that personally be is anxious to begin the reductions in cable rates immediately, but the Indian Administration dare not commence tiil Germany and Russia have formally approved the agreement. March 25. The Indian hawker has been found guilty of tl>p murder of one of his ! (.'ounii'TiutMiJitjHealesville, aud sentenced to. death. This Day. Mr Munro, Premier, has returned from Sydney owing to the sudden dea r h of Mr Saudndge, Chief Secretary of Victoria. In course of an interview he said the outlook for the successful termination of the^ National Convention waa gloomy as he believes the constitution will be such as neither New South Wales or Victoria will accept. .Adelaide, March 24. The total yield of wheat is estimated at ' 10.513,000 bushels, a decrease on the previous harvest of 4,073,000 bushels: The falling off is due to the large quantity being cut for hay upon the abvance of red rust and locusts. This Day. The Trans-coutinental Exploring Expedition has arranged to leavePeake in a fortnight, and proposes to be absent for twelve months, duriug which time it will • endeavour to fill the blanks in the map respecting Central Australia. Newcastle, This Day. The miners here haye voted £200 in aid of tho Denuistou miners. Bbisbane, March. 24. A number of leading- agitators concerned in the recent disturbances have been arrested. A man named Martin, who used disgraceful langnage concerning the Queen , and Acting- Governor, while addressing a meeting at Barcaldine, is to be proceeded against for seditious libel. ■••_■• • March 25. INews has been, received from German \ew friiinea of a terrible epidemic which is raging at Finschaffen. Thirteen Europeans and thirty Chinese died in a fortnight. The disease resembles cholera ' , and in some cases deaih intervenes within eighteen hours after the person has been attacked. The village of Fins-chaffi-n is about to be abandoned and it is probable that the. settlement will be removed to Frederick, Chaschafen, or .-ilexishafeni This Day. The Secretary of the Laborers' Uuion ■ is in communication with the Government of Western Australia asking whether they are prepared to assist 500(> bush workers to take up land in that colony with the view to establish co- .• operative colonies.