AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 272, 22 May 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE INTERMINABLE DEAN CASE. NEW AUSTRALIA COLONY. RUST IN WHEAT PEST. (Per Press Association). Sydney, May 21. In the Legislative Assembly Mr Reid, in reply to the statements that Lady Parkes and family were in great straits, even without the necessaries of life, Mr Reid said ever since the beginning of the illness of Sir H. Parkes the Government had supplied every need to the family and were still doing ao. Besides making permanent provision for the family the Government intended to ask Parliament to vote to place Lady Parkes in a comfortable home. At the conference of Southern coal owners and miners a mutual agreement was adopted, ijnder which the miners receive a quarter of the advance in prices of coal sold over existing contracts from May Ist during the continuance of the Newcastle strike. After locating the position of the tank containing the sold on board the sunken steamer Catterthun, the operations were temporarily abandoned owing to the bad weather. The diver discovered a skeleton of one of the victims of tbe wreck. This Day. A return bas been presented to the Legislative Assembly showing the Dean Royal Commission cost the country £4,554. Newcastle, This Day. A. H. Smith, one of the pioneer settlers of New Australia, has returned. He gives a doleful account of the condition of the settlers. Only ten families and thirty single men remain on the site of the first settlement in Paraguay. General discontent prevails. Little is known regarding Lane's new settlement, but it is understood it is not prosperous. Of 2000 cattle owned originally by the settlers only 500 remain. Financial matters are disorganised and the spirit of co-operation has disappeared. A number of large coal owners deny they have made any promise or come to any understanding to allow tbe miners to return at the old rates. Melbourne, This Day. The Minister of Agriculture has opened the Intercolonial Conference to consider the rust in wheat pest. Adelaide, This Day. The trustees of the State Bank are inviting tenders for 20,000 pounds worth of 8 5 per cent mortgage bonds.