AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 103, 28 October 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE WOOL BROKERS' DISPUTE. MORE BABY FARMING. (PER PBEBB ASSOCIATION). ! Svdnky, October 27. Both the cables between Java and Port Darwin are interrupted. The stoppage is at a point about 727 niiles from the Australian coast. All messages are passing over the Western Australian line. The steamship Katoomba arrived from Samoa to day. She reports everything quiet at the group. A conference, consisting of four representatives from th« wool buyers and four from the sellers, has been appointed to endeavour to settle the difficulty which has arisen in connection with the wool sales It is anticipated that the conference will have a successful issue, and that an amicable arrangement will be cotue to. This Day. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent and carry forward £48,000 to next year's account. The Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria are willing to hold a conference as suggested by the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce in connection with the construction of a Pacific cable. Sir Geo. Dibbs states the same conference 1 could be availed of to discura a reciprocity , treaty with Canada. A proposal to make bank notes which are issued under the Bank Issue Act a first charge on tho assets redeemable by | gold at the head offices of banks in Sydney only, is under consideration of the Government. Melboubne, October 27Mrs Whyatt, whom the police believe has been carrying on a baby farm, has been arrested on a charge of starving an infant to death. Bbisbajjk, This Day. The Government have announced they have no intention of floating the Treasury bills authorised towards the end of the session.