AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 242, 17 February 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE UNEMPLOYED DIFFICULTY. SENTENCED TO L>EAT£I (PSB FKESS ASSOCIATION ) Svdnky, This Day. The C(»lonial Treasurer states the imports of last year show a decrease of two millions six hundred and sixty-nine thousand pounds compared • with the previous }'ear. Melbourne, This Day. The defendant in the Speight v. Syine case has moved the full court to upset the verdict on the ground the judge received the verdict on January 2nd, notwithstanding the court did not sit on that day or at any time in January ; further, that the court sat in the long vacation which began on December, which, it is contended, is illegal. Obituary — The |Rev. Mr Syrnous, one of the oldest "Wesleyans in Australia. The Bishop of Graf ten is the first graduate of the Melbourne University raised to the Episcopal Bench. He is thirty-seven years of age. Brisbane, This Day. It is expected the output of sugar scxt season will show an increase C'f 25 per cent ou the previous season. The trial of Kuox and Gent to-day for the murder of joung C rancour, whose father's shop they attempted to rob at night, resulted in Knox being sentenced to death. Gent received three years for being an accomplice before the fact. Adelaide. This Day The unemployed marched in procession through the streets in defiance of a byerlaw which provides the consent of the Mayor must be obtained to such demonstration. Though he specially refused permission the prgcessiou proceeded to the Destitute Asylum and demanded shelter, but the police barred hteir entrance.