AUSTRALIAN. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 12 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Melbourne, January 9. Mi< Service has arranged to address his constituents at Castlemaine on Wednesday next, and Mr Berry will meet the leaders of the Liberal party on Thursday. It is expected that some announcement will be made in regard to the impending changes in the Ministry recently foreshadowed in the Argus. Forty-ti\e Mharf labourers have arrived from Adelaide to replace the strikers. The men have been placed on Messis Huddart, Parker, and Company's steamer Errangamite, in order to prevent intimidation from outside. The Trades' Council have held a meeting, at which a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the Labourers' Union, and the various trades' unions are warmly supporting the action of the slrikeis. Later. Forty-five of the men who were brought over from Adelaide by the shipowners have joined the Union men, regardless of, the contract under which they were engaged. Six of the labourers who came from Sydney have also made common cause with tlie men on strike. The returns of the Victorian goldfield for the past year show a total of 810,000 ounces, being a small increase over 1884.

January 10. Arrived : The Orient Company's Garonne, with the English mails dated London, December 4.

Adelaide, January 9. The produce market remains dull. Shipping wheat is quoted at 4s Id to 4s 2d ; town flour, £9 to £9 ss; and country brands, .£8 10s to £8 15s.