AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 113, 10 November 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEE PBEBB ASSOCIATION). Sydney, November 9. Nicholson, a member of Parliament, has been committed for trial for criminal libel on John Wynn, of Woonona. He asserted in a local paper Wynn was a liar and a man unworthy to be a Justice of the Peace. A public meeting presided orer by Sir H. Farkes, passed motions affirming the the desirability of female franchise, and congratulating New Zealand as premier iv this direction. The Barque Victory, bound from Warrnambool to Newcastle, en route to Gisborne, foundered off Howe Gape. The crew were rescued by a passing steamer and brought on here. Tha labour conference, attended by members of the Labour Party in the Legislative Assembly began yesterday. Resolutions were carried having for their object the unity of the party and declare ing it necessary to abolish the Legislative Council, also, in favor of Local Government and the imposition of a tax on the unimproved value of land. H M.S. Boomerang has arrived at Newcastle from a cruise among the Islands. During the cruise two chiefs, hailing from Aurora Islands, were taken prisoners and one was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of a native trader. Several villages on Aurora Island and Engemu were shelled and destroyed. Melbourne, This Day; At a dinner given by the Mayor in honor of the Prince of Wales birthday, Lord Glasgow and several Governors were present. In responding to a toast Lord Glasgow offered New Zealand as an illustration of how to survive depression.