AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEU THESS ASSOCIATION.) Std.vbf, This Day. The Village Settlements Bill was thrown out in the Legislative Assembly. The Crown Lands Labor Settlement Bill which has been substituted for it, pro poses to grant land leases to Boards ol Control who will bo empowered to es^ tablish industries and apportion profit* to members. The Government will advance sums ranging from £15 to £2c per head to the Boards who will repaj the amount with four per cent interesl ndded. The New South Wales Athletic As socfation has n<lopt<><], Vfith srvoi'al alter ations, the scheme pissed by the New Zealand Association on M-iy 17th last foi carrying out the first, scries of Australian cmniptonship meeting?. The scheme has now been referred to the Victoriar Association. At a ir.e2ting of the Amalgamated Engineers resolutions were passed re fusing to accede to the reductions proposed at Morfs dock especially. It is likely a strike will soon ensue as owing to the depression it is thought probable the Dock Company will pay off the bulk ol the hands. The reported rich mineral discoveries; near Burra, have fizzled out for the present so far ns shallow sinking is concerned. Further quests will be made for deep sinking. Up to the present the Govornmeufc has advanced ±110,000 to the holders ol current accounts in the suspended banks, Melbourne, This Day The Railway Commissioners have dispensed with the services of Mr Alison Smith, head of the lgcomolive depart ment. The Victorian steamship owners are conferring with tho New South Wales owners relative to the proposed reductions in the rates of wages.