AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 144, 2 June 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

* THE EECENT GALE AT MAURITIUS. |PlSrt UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION | Brisbane, June 1. The French Meat Preserving Company in Gomen, New Caledonia, is importing a large quantity of cattle from Queensland. The Company has received a large contract for tinned meats for the French army, and there is not sufficient cattle in New Caledonia to keep pace with the demand. Sir S. Griffiths has wired to the Premier of South Australia to the effect that while recognising that the introduction of coloured labour is a matter for Federal authority, be thinks it can only be dealt with by that authority which is responsible to carry out its conclusions. Sir snmuel adds that the Conference, as suggested by Mr Playford, could not assume the responsibilities mentioned, and he failed to see that any useful service was to be served by its being established. Sydney, This Day. Intelligence has been received that Bell and Davis, the levanters who were supposed to have left Honolulu for Hong Kong, sold their yacht Beagle at Callio in April. Melboitbne, This Day. A motion has been carried in the Legislative Council to consider the petition of the Bailway Commissioners by 26 to 2, the latter being Ministers. The Hon.. Mr Davies regarded the action of the Council as unconstitutional, and likely to bring about a conflict with the Assembly. The Council requested the Assembly to agree to the appointment of a joint committee to deal with the case. In the Lower House Mr Shiels, the Premier, moved that a message be sent to the Council, stating the House was willing to hear the commissioners at the bar. Adelaide, This Day. News from Mauritius states that many heart rending scenes occurred after the disaster, carts being engaged everywhere in removing the dead. At Martinique the gale has been most terrible within the memory of man. From one sugar house 60 bodies were dug out. The Legislative Council took immediate steps to raise £200,000 for the relief of the sufferers. Beports from the Murchison diggings show a terrible amount of sickness on the field. Men are dying on the roads.