AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 238, 13 February 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

ANOTHER GOLD DISCOVERY. RIOTS AMONG MINERS. CHEAP MONEY SCHEME. | Per Press Association. | Melboubne, February 12 The Premier bns announced that the Government intend to firmly repress the distribution of properties by lottery, as it considers it will not help the colony out of difficulties, but rather encourage the .spirit of gambling. It is estimated that the recent Gipps* land floods will cost £50,000 to repair the darns ge. This Day. The Cabinet has decided, after considering the tendency of the high rates of interest charged by the banks to cripple enterprise, to formulate a scheme for advancing money at 5 per cent to small land-holders from the savings banks. Sydney, This Day In communicating the result of the Shearer's Conference to the Pastoralists' Union, the President pointed out that the spirit of freedom of contract had not been observed, as the Pastoralists' Union, not being an employer, the men were not free to engage, or employers free to employ, men of their own selection. References were useless, because what would satisfy one man would not satisfy another. News has been received by the Government of the discovery of a new reef at Hillend, a crushing yielding at the rate of one hundred ounces per ton, The reef can be traced along the surface for five hundred feet. Arrived — Rotokino, from Wellington. A disturbance of a somewhat serious character occurred at the Co-operative Mine yesterday. A large body of miners and many women and children making a hostile demonstration against the tribute™, and as they were leaving the mine the latter were hustled and some stone- tli rowing indulged in, but without serious injury to anyone. Newcastle, This Day. Capt. Robertson, of the Timaru Harbor Board dredge, No. 404, is dead. He was taken ashore from the vessel a few days ago in a very low state.