AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 195, 19 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A MAYOR FINED £50. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE, (FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, This Day. The Mayor of Broken Hill was fined £50 and debarred from taking office in or under the Council for seven years, for being concerned in a contract for supplies to the Council. The following team has been selected to visit New Zealand to contest the swimming championship events in Auckland next month — J. HeUings, C. Hellings, Holmes, Goramly, and Toober. Much uneasiness was felt in Newcastle owing to a fear that the proposed reduction in the hewing rate to 2s lOd per ton would produce a strike. The Girta mine has already notified the reduction to 2s lOd and tins is certain to be resisted by the men. Melbourne, This Day. Counsel on behalf of Mr Speight is addressing the Court, and it is expected the case wUI be concluded to day. A nolle prosequi was entered by the Crown in the remaining charges of murder against the woman Knorr, consequently her husband, who was charged with her, has been discharged from custody. At a farewell banquet to Mr Beid, who visits Canada to hold a conference, the Colonial Treasurer stated the Colony would not borrow in London at present. What was hoped io do when the oppor tunity oflereu was to consolidate the whole loans into one of interminable stock. Ther« was plenty of money in the country and what was wanted was a revival of enterprise. Brisbane, This Day. The Government has decided to establish a labor colony at Tandiyo, 70 miles from Brisbane Thubsday Island, This Day. A report has been received that all the native troopers who were attaoked by the blacks are safe, having reached the coast after a severe struggle.