AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 270, 18 May 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE REDFERN RAILWAY COLLISION. 13 ACTIONS FOE DAMAGES. BOOM IN SILVER SHARES. IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE. (Per Press Association.) Albany, May 17. Arrived — Arcadia. Passengers for New Zealand are Mr Rhodes and wife, three children and nurse, and Miss Fotherington. Hobart, May 17. Edward Murray, steerage passenger on the Rimutaka for Wellington, jumped overboard on the passage and was drowned. Brisbane, May 17. The bread-carters are forming a union for the purpose of assisting the masters to keep up the price of bread at such an amount as will allow the present rate of wages to be paid out. Sydnky, May 17. No less than thirteen actions, involving heavy claims for damages, arc on the tapis against the Railway Commissioners in connection with the Redfern collision in October last. Melbourne, May 17. Two co-operative contractors were fined for paying smaller wages than the nainimum stipulated in their contracts. The Ninevab, the first steamer to ship produce under the new cheaper agreement, will leave here on June lstt The Age says that one indication of the improvement in trade is that the factories throughout the city are woiking at such high pressure that the Minister of Trade is constantly receiving applications for exemptions from the Factories Act in order that the employes might be allowed to work overtime. These applications are much more numerous than they have been for a long time. A cablegram from Calcutta announces that the tea market has opened at prices Id to 1M per lb higher than last season. Adelaide, May 17. There is a miniature boom in shares as some Broken Hill mines are known to contain sulphide ores, owing to the discovery by Mr Ashcroft, electrician of the Pronriety mine, of the successful process of extracting the zinc by electrocysis.