AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 256, 6 March 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE NEW ELECTORAL ACT. FARMERS AND CHEAP MONEY. TROUBLE IN NEW AUSTRALIA. AN AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT— LOSS OF 682,000 SHEEP. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, March 5 Already many members show dissatisfaction with the scope of the measures in the new Electoral Act, and talk of resisting it. A letter from one of the New Australia settlers states that as the fundamental rules are not to be enforced until a certain number of immigrants arrive, Mr Lane (the founder of the colony) has, in the meantime, assumed dictatorial power. Another writer says that three members have been turned away for breaking rules, and about twenty others who sympathised with them left at the same time. This Day. Three escapees from New Caledonia have been arrested on Richmond river. They stated they were ten days in an open boat in heavy weather. Melbourne, March 5 The Colonial Treasurer is besieged with applications from farmers and others for loans at 5 per cent. One hundred boot makers employed at Marshall's factory have struck work. Recently a deputation waited on Mr Marshall and complained of a reduction in wages with the result that the spokesman was dismissed, and because of a refusal to reinstate him the other men employed in the factory have gone out on strike. Brisbane:, March 5. Returns show that the draught which has just broken up caused during the last two years the loss of 632,000 sheep. This Day. Some anxiety is felt regarding the safety of the barque William Manson, with two hundred native recruits on board. The vessel was spoken by the Borough Belle a few days before the latter was wrecked, and it is feared she has met with a disaster in the same Sale.