AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
LABOUR CONFERENCE. IMPORTANT TO SHEEP-FARMERS A FATAL TORNADO. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. (per press association.) Sydney. January 17. The conference of Labour members of Parliament was opened to-day, but the proceedings so far were only of a formal character. Melbourne, This Day. The Premier states that if the sheepbreeders show themselves in earnest and form Companies on the Hues of the Butter Factories, and establish a slaughter house and chilling works, the Government will establish a freezing .store on the pier at Port Melbourne or Willianistowu. PERTH, This Day. Particulars of the tornado at Roeburn show that at least twenty-two lives wero lost. Several homesteads were wrecked, and a number of Chinese killed. The schooner Annie sank in the Foam Passage, and a man named Erickson, with his wife and children, and fourteen coloured men were drowned. Most of the pearlshell fleet were driven ashore at Cossack, and twelve luggers are missing. Twenty inches of rain fell.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 217, 18 January 1894, Page 2
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