AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 83, 2 October 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

STORMS, WRECKS, AND LOSS OF LIFE. THE FOOTBALLERS PLEASED WITH THEIR TREATMENT. PENNY POSTAGE SCHEME. (PER PBESB ABHOCIATIONI. Sydney, This Day. Very bad weather has been experienced along the coast lately. ' The schooner Trio with five hands and the ketch Rob Roy with four hands are missing, and it is feared they have foundered. The footballers speak in high terms of the treatment they received in New Zealand. Mrs Besaut has sailed for Auckland. ' The Greta colliery, Newcastle, has resumed with non-Union labor. Some demonstration was made against the men as they proceeded to work. Tho Alameda, which sailed to-day for Auckland, took £100,000 worth of specie. The weather cleared up for the holiday, and there was an immense procession in celebration of the eight hours system. Melbourne, This Dav. Professor Lyle has brought an action against the University claiming performances of specific contract or £20,000 damages. The actiou is the outcome of a dispute whether tbe University, under terms of agreement, has power to retrench the professor's salary. The bootmakers' difficulty still continues. The masters have drawn up an amendment statement, which adopts a weekly wage throughout trade with a minimum of 85s per week. A conference is being arranged between masters and men to discuss the subject. Übisbanb, This Day. Six men who were charged with being concerned with Prior in shooting at the shearer at Wellsbot station were acquitted Tbe Government have revoked the interdict against the delivery of letters to sweep promoters. Adelaide, This Day, Mr Hennicker Heaton has arrived here. He will approach the several Governments and Chambers of Commerce respecting an Imperial penny post.