AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 737, 11 May 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE, May 8 Large number of diggers returned from Perth. General opinion is that alluvial deposits in Western Australia are patchy and uncertain, and at best will provide lucrative employment for very few. Owing to reduction in orders for coal for use on railways 160 men in Coal Creek mine will shortly be thrown out of employment. SYDNEY, May 7 Australian Labour Federation scheme has been finally adopted. Under new arrangement Trades Council ceases to exist from July Ist. Feared that Miners’ Association will not allow Greta miners to accept terms offered by’ owners, viz., 2s lid. Death announced of the Rev D'Arcy Irvine, formerly headmaster of Napier Grammar School. MELBOURNE, May 9 Govt are preparing Bill withdrawing right to issue notes from banks, and providing for issue of notes by State only. Reported Govt contemplates further reductions in salaries of Civil Servants, Ministers, Members of Parliament and of Judges. Bill also be introduced reducing salary of future Governors to £7,500. Justice Holroyd, in delivering judgment re Federal Bank, said a careful perusal of the evidence induced strong impression that the Bank was used by majority, at least, of Directors for their own convenience, and that of friends, without regard to the interest of shareholders. The system on which the business was conducted was thoroughly unsound. SYDNEY, May 9 Bootmakers are striking in Sydney against working with non-unionists. Assembly, by 24 to 14, negatived motion in favor of State ownership of ooal mines.