AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 66, 15 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ANOTHER STRIKE THREATENED.

(PKU ritKSS ASSOCIATION.) Hobart. September 14. The Doric brought 31 passengers for Australia and has 130 for New Zealand. She sails at 5 p.m. for Wellington. Melbourne, This Diiy. The Chamber of Commerce adopted a schomo to establish a voluntary tribunal of arbitration based upon the scheme employed by the London Chamber from this tribunal. Arbitrators may bo selected ; no professional advocates will be allowed. Tho strike in Iho milling trado is threatening owing to the refusal of Brun ton and Co to mterfero with throe men in their employ who are non«unionist. The union declare they will not permit them to step. The Owner's Association has decided to support tho Company in any stop takcu. Negotiations between the shipowners and engineers have assumed a more favourable complexion. Tho gap between the two sets of proposals has con* siderably decreased, and the revised proposals submitted to tho owners, and the Conference will probably be called shortly to discuss them. The nature of the latest proposals has not been made known. Brisbane. This Day. Corporal Brady won the Championship at the KiHe Association meeting and Sergt. Millican, of Charters Towers, won tho Queen's prize. Tho JBill to enoonrftfje tho e-cport of meat and dairy produce has passed the Council.