AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
SEAMEN'S STRIKE. SYDNEY, December 7. The men employed by the Shipping Company kuve petitioned the Government for protection against the assaults of strikers. The Governor did not accept the advico of Ministers who, it is stated, favoured dissolution.
December 8. Mr Robertson has accepted the task of forming a new Ministry. The Queensland Ministry as been reconstructed ; Griffiths, for Works and Public Institutions; Garrick, Attorney-General : McLean, Land Inspector.
The strikers have severely assaulted a renegade who accepted the terms offered by the Company.
There is great excitement, and farther outrages of a serious character are feared.
T,he Government is taking active steps to prevent injury to life or property; SYDNEY, yesterday. Intelligence from Fiji reports applications made to the High Commissioners Court, Sydney, to prosecuts the Rev G. Brown, for alleged manslaughter. Mr Brown's friends thought the trial ought to take place m New Britain, and the application was not pressed. The Commissioner will proceed to New Britain, to enquire into the oharge.
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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1009, 10 December 1878, Page 2
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165AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1009, 10 December 1878, Page 2
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