AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 156, 31 December 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

DEVELOPING AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES. AUSTRALIAN FINANCES. THE COLLIERS' DISPUTE. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. (FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.:) Sydney, This Day. A Board of Advice, comprising six members representing the chief industries of the colony, will probably be appointed to assist the Minister of the New Industrial Department. Including loan moneys there is ciose upon two millions of cash iv the bauks to the credit of the Government. The Colonial Treasurer states the finauciai position of the colony in such that it is doub ful whether the Government will need io raise a loau at all. The notice of a reduction given to the miners in the Seahan and Wallsend collories, wnich expires to-day, has been extended for another fourteen days. The Hetton miners, numbering two hundred and forty, bave already struck against the reduction. The Miners' Delegate Board of Newcastle has decided by an overwhelming majority to resist the proposed reduction in the hewing rate, and on the other hand will demand an increase of 4d per ton. H.M.S. Crescent has arrived with relief crews. She returns to England with 600 time-expired officers and men. H.M. Curacoa has sailed for England. .VI klbourne, Ihis Day. Mason, who was in custody on a charge of causing the death of his brother at Carlton on Christmas eve, was discharged by the Coroner's jury. The chemical works of Felton, Grimmade and Co., situated at Port Melbourne, have been destroyed by fire. Tho damage is estimated at .£13 ,000, and the insurances amount to £"9000. The Fire Brigade were exposed to much danger owing to the explosive nature of the contents of . burning building, and tbe fumes arising from the burning mass of six hundred tons of sulphur were overpowering.