AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 338, 13 June 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

GREAT STRIKE OF SHEARERS PREDICTED. POVERTY ON THE INCREASE IN SYDNEY. (l?BB PRES* ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, June 12. Mr Dangar, president of the Pastoral* ists' Council of Australia, stated in the course o!f a speech tbat there is every possibility of a shearers 1 strike over the whole of Australia in a fortnight, which may lead to a general labour crisis more serious than anything yet experienced. This Day. The report of the Benevolent authori* ties show* that the increase of poverty in the city during last year was unprecedented. The action taken by the Sydney Presbytery against tbe Rev. Mclnnes, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, for bis yiews on tbe verbal inspiration of tbe scriptures, as expressed in biß address to the General Assembly, has fizzled out. Tbe motion calling for a conference between tbe Presbytery and the Moderator was withdrawn by the mover, wbo said tbat the misapprehension under which he laboured had been dispelled by the Moderator. Melbourne, This Day. The Government have received a cable message stating that the trade delegates who are travelling in the East have arrived at Hong Kong. They report there is a good opening for flour there, as freights have been reduced to 12/6 per ton. Brisbane, This Day. Colonel Drury has been appointed Commanolant of the Queensland forces, in succession to Major-General Owen. Hob art, This Day. The Government propose to put a halfmillion loan on the market early next year. ________________________