NEW SOUTH WALES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3561, 26 May 1880, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

. ■ Sydney, May 20. Two thousand miners are out on strike at Newcastle. The associated miners each set aside nine shillings in the pound out of their wages for the support of the strikers. It was rumored recently that the Kellys had been seen at Chilbern. The police mustered, but it proved to be the camp of four honey seekers. The commission to paint a portrait of Sir Hercules Bobinson as tbe latest addition to the Government House Gallery has been entrusted by the Sydney committee to G. F. Folingsby, who has left for New Zealand, where he will be a guest at Government House until he has been favored with a sufficient number of sittings by Sir Hercules. VICTORIA. Melbourne, May 20. The vacancy in the Legislative Council, caused by the death of Neil Black, is

likely to be filled by Mr Samson, the former member. Replying to a question in the Assembly Mr Service admitted that it was undesirable for the country to be swamped by j an influx of Chinese labor, but said the j question was of national importance, and could not be settled off hand. Government was collecting information, and when that was published a statement would be made on the subject. In consequence of the strike among the colliers at Newcastle, Melbourne is very short of coal. During last week several factories stopped business that had been seriously suffering owing to the want of coal. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, May 19. Burnett's Temperances Crusade is very successful, over 1800 persons having signed the pledge within the past three weeks. Government intend placing a sum of £5000 on the estimates for the representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition. A considerable take of flue pearls is reported from King George's Sound.