AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

RETRENCHMENT IN VICTORIA. ESKBANK IRONWORKS. THE SHEARING TROUBLE in NEW SOUTH WALES. NEW AUSTRALIA. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydxky, July 31 Parliament is summoned to meet on August 7. The Eskbank ironworks, which were recently closed down, have resumed work on a partial co-operative system. The shearers on the Barren station have struck work. A squad of fully armed police lias been despatched to the scene to preserve order. The owners intend to protsecute the men for breaking their agreement. • A letter ban been received from the pioneer of the New Australian settlement in Paraguay, in which the writer draws a doleful picture of the condition of Lane's party, who left the settlement. The trouble, it appears, arose because the second batch of immigrants wished to depart from the Constitution. The writer considers that the second batch are making a tool of lyidd, and that further trouble is likely to arise. Melbocbub, July 30. The Premier refuses to be swayed by threats of political interference regarding the proposed dismissal of railway employees, and declares that the scheme of retrenchment as propounded by the Government must be rigidly carried out. Bbisbank, July 31 Haussmann, an accountant in the Lands Department, has been sentenced to 2 years for embezzlement, but the sentence has been suspended under the Protection Act.