AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 105, 31 October 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE WOOLBROKERS* DIFFICULTY SETTLED. AN INHUMAN MONSTER. MINERS DYING FROM THIRST. (FEB PBESB ASSOCIATION). Mklbociink. This Day. The wool difficulty ha" bern settled, and sa'cs will be resumed to-morrow. The representatives of flic btij'ers, in their letter to the brokers stn'ed thnt the discretion selling broker* always had in ihe niat'er of delivery should not be per sistcd in a vexatious spirit. The brokers replied, accepting the series of suggestions made by the bujpis. nnd also stating thnt they had no desire to act in a vexatious manner. As tbere is some probnbi'iiy that the conference on the question of n Pacific cable will not be held before Mr Bowell returns to Canada, Mr Pntterson, Premier of Victoria, has adopted Mr BowelPs suggestion that the Australian colonies should send representatives to Canada early next year to discus » the matter. A man named Fletelier, residing at Cobden, murdered his four year-old child because it would not stop cryinsr. He broke its neck and both legs. Fletcher has been arrested, Perth. This Day. Bad news continues to come from Coolgnrdie gold field regarding the tack of water. A late arrival u.«>erts that men tire perishing for the. want of water. Sydney. October 30. The promoters of " >ew Australia " in Paraguay, are arranging for further ressels to carry emigrnn's. Over two thousand applications have been received, including many from New Zen land. The steamer Polynesien has arrived at Sydney from Noumea, and brings news of the mnrder of n French recruiting agent, and two of bis native crew, at Aurora, one of the New Hebrides Islands. Another Frenchman on board the recruiting vessel swam ashore and escaped into the bush, whence he made his way to a misrion dtation. The French man-of-war Scorff has been despatched to the island to investigate the matter.