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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3053, 27 November 1878, Page 2

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PEB S.S. ROTOBTJi..) „ ■ V (.Peb Pbess Agency.) ■ Sydney, November 20. • Weiberg, in his confession, states that bn August 27th the chief officer jEUison assisted in the robbery from "the Avoca and gafe him two hundred sovereigns, saying it would not be well for him to have too much. He had not seen Ellison

since. " " The shooting at Williamstbwn \ex? eeeded Wimbledon. ' ; - There has been considerable Btonewalling over the vote for the embassy. Brurtal, formerly Mayor of Adelaide, is dead. i The sentences in the embracery case are regarded as veiy serere., „ ! The Presbyterian Assembly t hare, appointed a committee to promote the religious education of the young, and strongly condemned the exclusion of the Bible from the schools. j ' John Crowther, Commission Agent, has commenced an action for libel against Aignes. . : A petition in favor of connecting Sydney with the Northern railway'is being 'signed.l '' .'„'.' ; .;; -It is rumored that the Governor of Victoria declines to grant a dissolution. The Bey. Chas. Chipiquy has lectured at Kiama and other places: > ■ '< >'• :* j ""'' 1 The Supreme.Court-has declared;the £elly gang outlaws under the ['Felons 'Act.. I. ■' .-.'. •' •';..:'!!•.".!

Particulars of the strike of seamen shew that when the steamer Victdria was,; about,to leave the wharf for Cooktown," the men deserted, in a body, apparently according to some pre-arranged plan, jbut left two or three Europeans below! to prevent an accident. - A Chinese crew was then put on the Victoria and Boomerang/ The wharf laborers also struck. The men aU belong to the Seamen's Union, md ascribe the strike to a;reduction of pay from seven to six pounds. Chinese were put on board the steamers trading between Sydney, Fiji and New. Caledonia, which the Union 'considers part of the intercolonial trade. A deputation of the Seamen's Union to directors of the Company lasted three hours, with no result. IjThe Chinese receive four pounds less jper month than Europeans, and cost less {for ■food. The. company employ 160 (Chinamen. The seamen held a meeting in jthe Protestant Hall; and resolved not to Work on board steamers where Chinamen were employed. * ]

At Newcastle the crew of the ateamer Coonambara deserted in a 'body. The Union issued a notice to firemen, trim*; mers, sailors, stewards,'cooks 1 and others. During the year 1878; 2888 Chinaihen arrived in New South Wales.■ '„\ At a meeting of the Commisßioners- for lifow South .Wales at the Paris Exhibition, a letter was read from Lbubert, Paris, calling attention to the high exhibits from New Zealand, which is credited with fire exhibitors and won two diplomas! of. honor. . ■r ' , ' Queensland. . The Queenslander expedition 'has reached the Herbert and JEtanken rirenu. Bodies were found, believed to be tnose of the Brothers Pront, who perished from thirst. ' * • ' ' ■ 1' " ' Four Maorieis (P) were killed and thirteen seriously wounded on the Northern' line. . j ' "' The French frigate ftance, with '600, troops^ passed Cooktown, ', ■■ ''. -.<