AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1724, 23 March 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Brisbane, March 20. The Premier has decided to co-operate with Victoria in opening markets for Australian wool in China and Japan. Melbourne, March 20.

A hundred and fifty railway employees have expressed their willingness to retire on six months’ pay, and over two hundred teachers on pensins. . '

Death sentences for offences on little girls have been commuted in the cases of Ewen to ten years and Robertson to fifteen years’ penal servitude, with two floggings of fifteen- lashes each.

■ * Sydney, The directors of the Kapai mine have decided to resist the claims of the Oassel. Company for the use of the cyanide process, and the secretary proceeds to Auckland to-morrow in the interests of his company. Counsel’s opinion is to the effect that the decision of the English-Court, while not strictly legal in the sense of being a bar to proceedings to enforce the patent, is practically a bar. He holds that no Court, in the face of the-Eng-lish decision would grant an injunction to stop works, nor would any colonial judge, in the event o fl an action being brought, ignore the English verdict. Melbourne, March 21. It is now taken for granted that an Australian eleven will visit England at the end of next summer. The new men likely to be included are : Eady, Tasmania;*A. E. Trott, Melbourne; Ipedale; Sydney; and Darling and Hill, of Adelaide,