AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 30 January 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, Jan. 29. Arrived— Hauroto from Bluff. Sydney, January 29. Sailed Manaponri for Auckland. Tlie wreck of the Wollumbin is attributed to an error of the compasses. Last year over one million frozen sheep were exported from the colonies by the different companies. This Day. Ethel Wright, of Gunnedah, the girl who accused her uncle and another man of attempting to poison her, pleaded guilty to a charge of perjury and was sentenced to four years. Newcastle, January 30. The Sydney Soap Company has notified employees of a reduction of 10 per cent in wages. The manager stated that in consequence of an omission in the protective duty the market is flooded, and it is impossible to compete with the imported article. Hobart, January 29. H.M.S. Penguin has arrived from the Bluff. Brisbane, Jan. 29. Several conferences have been held between the Labour Party and the Opposition, with the result that it is understood that the Labour Party refuses to identify itself wholly with the Opposition at the ensuing elections. It seems probable, however, that arrangements will have been concluded to prevent the candidates of the two parties clashing with each other in the various constituencies The Hospital at Barcaldine has been destroyed by fire. The patients were rescued. This Day. Rain is general throughout the colony ; in the Is orth it is especially heavy.