AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 107, 2 November 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

«- A NEW TORPEDO. (Per Press Association.) Hobart, Novr. 1. At a meeting of the Chamber of Com- ■ merce Mr Fysh, urging Federation, said 1 in referring to tbe liabilities of the colon ies that uniform consolidation debt meant a saving of one million annually in in 1 terest, which was more than sufficient to ■ cover the cost of a Federal Government. Melbourne, Nov. 1. ' Mrs Kilpatrick has obtained a verdict for £780 against Huddart Parker & Go. ' for the loss of her husband, an engineer ' drowned in the foundering of the Alert. A strike has occurred at tbe Kookurn- > burra mine over a question of slack. > Three hundred and thirty men are oat. An imposing ceremony took place today at Saint Paul's Cathedral on the consecration of tbe JRev- Stretch, of Ballarat, as coadjutor of the Bishop of Brisbane, and Archdeacon Cooper as suffragan Bishop of Ballarat. The Primate and several Bishops took part in tbe ceremony. The Rev Stretch is the first Australianborn Bishop appointed. Kelly, of Ballarat, is the inventor of a . new torpedo which he claims may be . launched as a projectile through the air , or under water, and cannot be interfered ! with by ships' protecting nets. At the late Sir J. B. Patterson's funeral ' all classes were represented, and the immense concourse was a national tribute to his memory. Tbe weather was beau- ! tiful. Wheat is in strong demand. Between | two and three thousand bags have been \ Bold at 4s, and the market closed firm. This Day. \ Trouble is threatened in the shipping [ trade. The seamen and firemen are demanding a restoration of £1 per month in wages, reduced in 1893. The shipowners refutied to agree to it. H.M.S. Dart has arrived from Cook- ! town, with the body of Sub-Lieut Rath- . bone, who accidentally shot himself while [ cleaning a revolver. j Sydney, Novr. 1. 1 Rolfe, solicitor, convicted of conspiracy | in connection with the Butler divorce . case, has been struck off the rolls. , This Day. , The Sydney Telegraph, dealing with the New Zealand treaty, says it teaches the wisdom of expending the application Freetrade principles. Newcastle, Novr. 1. j The New Lambton colliery is closing ' down indefinitely owing to slackness of ; trade. Nicety men will be thrown out of work.