AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 207, 5 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COAL MINERS' STRIKE. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. A BOY SHOT DEAD. WHOLESALE PROSECUTION OF BOOKMAKERS. (PER PKESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydnky, January 4 In connection with the inqniry by Judge Fitzhardinge into the alleged irregularities in the working of the Deeds and Search Branches of the Registrar-General's Department, E. C. Hopkins, one of the clerks, has been dismissed. W. W. Bucknall, another of the clerks, and. G. W. Hill, record attendant in the department, who were also called upon to show cause why they should not be dismissed, have been reinstated. This Day. Frozen meat returns show that the export from the colony for the year was 74,000 carcases below that of the proceeding year. The Government express themselves as absolutely certain of a majority when Parliament meets on the 17th instant, sufficient to enable them to transact business. Newcastle, This Day. At the inquest on the man Hyde, the jury returned a verdict that he was shot by his wife in self-defence. All attempts to arrange the difficulty between ownexs and men at the Stockton mine have failed, and the mine will remain idle. The Delegate Board of Miners have resolved to make a ten per cent levy on the members for support of the unemployed, but this discussion requires to be continued by the various lodges, Meldocbne, January 4. The Argus declares that the high policy tariff has broken down badly, and that the colony must export more and more. Therefore, according to the newspaper, it is necessary to maintain export conditions — that is, to live on low prices obtained abroad and not on the fond but illusory hope of high prices locally. The Argus concludes by stating that duties should be lowered to the New Zealand standard. In the intercolonial matrh, the Vie* tori 'ins in their second innings were all out for 298 Worrall scored 58 ; Walters, 95 ; Layer, 42 ; McLeod (not out) 28 South Australia thus won the match by 74 runs. This Day. A boy named Jose was irritating a man named Bennett in a street in Geelong, when the latter procured a rifle and shot the boy dead. In the course of a speech the Minister of Railways said it was the intention of the Government to do with one Commirsioner less, and they thought it would be better to send their own men to America, to gain experience than to import an American expert. Adelaide, This Day The Government have deckled to prosecute thirty Jwokmakers for betting at the Morpethville races. Bbisbane, This Day The gold yield for the year shows a decrease of fifteen thousand ounces.