AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 110, 6 November 1896, Page 2

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_ ♦ - (Per Press Association.^ Brisbane, Nov. 5. The police have arrested five supposed French escapees at Bloorafield. A boat with three men en board also believed to be escapees, has passed Point Archer. The police have gone in pursuit. On the motion of Mr Gregory, the Legislative Council shelved the Federal Bill on the voices. Mr Thynne, the Minister in cbnrge of the measure intimated that if the Bill was not passed, Queensland would have , to £0 unrepresented at the Federal Conference. News received from the police in Perth states that a man named Oliver, implicated with Watson (who was recently arrested at the Cape) in the alleged misappropriation of Trust funds, has been arrested there. Piomanes, a Greek, has been arrested on a charge of stabbing a man named Smith, a waiter in an oyster saloon, in tha neck The injured man succumbed almost immediately.

This Day. In consequence of the rayages of the tick plague and drought Government have decided not to levy the meat export tax for 1897. The Premier has endorsed the statement that Government do not intend to proceed further with the Federation Bill. He says it would be useless to introduce another Bill. Sydney, Not. 5. The Legislative Council negatived the motion for the first reading of the Referendum Bill by oO votes to 7, on the ground that it would interfere with the privileges of tha Chambnr, the President's ruling being that it would alter the consiiiuuon of ths Council, and all Bills affecting either House immediately affected by them. This Day. After a hearing extending over six teen days the Land Appeal Court delivered interim judgment, dismissing Wilson's appeal in the Macadool case. This is the first of a number of similar appeals. The Federal Timber Company's works at Balmain, with a lar<je stock of timber, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £66,000. Melbourne, This Day. At a meeting of Iri.shojen to receive the report of representatives of Victorian Home Rulers who attended the Dublin Convention, resolutions were carried, endorsing the resolutions of the Convention, declaring for unity and majority rule, and recognising John Dillon as loader of the Irish Party, and principal authority on Irish national politics.