AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2967, 21 July 1891, Page 3

AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

(r.v 1-1.! ' -ri.ii- Ti-.1.n; K.M'ii 10t-v 1:10 li 1). M rot;'.i-KN 1-'. -Inly -0. C()t'!,:-'l'o:-; lias 1 • -.■ n si-ntr::C"d to death on the charti- "f ni'n(lcring Mr and Mrs I >1 V 1-55 at ' Now that tin- Hood ha" subsided, trainin.' can lie l-oMim.-ii at Eh-minyton. The short distance com>es are dry enough to Iit. ~f ho: -.-s workins.', hut tin- autlio1' itics are of opinion that it i- pi rilouL'alh'ping on many parts of the course. A boy named'Mathers, att"d 12, shot himself'dead with a revolver because his mother scoldi d him. Svi.m:v, July I!'. The Tr> ies Council report that. New South Wal. s has contributed C4OOO to the (liiccnsland shearers, and the otin-r colonies, except Queensland it-elf, £1800. The Shearers' Union, ill addition, sent f.'.'iOOO. The total amounts subsci iheil from all sources by ten unions were nver 17)0,00(1. There is little 01 110 pro-pect at present of an amicable settlement of the dilliciilty between the shearers and the pastoralis's in this colony. Some excitement was caused in town to-day by the npot that Pybus, a well known shun broker, had levanted. It is believed that he has -rot clear with nearly .no,ooo. The result of the rec-nt trial of brakes is that the Commissioners have decided to fit the foods t'ain= with the Westing house brake a* a co-d: of l'[oo,o.so. Ihe passenger trains an- already supplied. Tli. Unioi.U-i are fin-ins agirrc.-sively at I'.ourke. and there is ma.-h exciU-ine.nt in tow n in conseijucncc. Hit v cut the 111001 ini;s of a river steamer wiiich was he ing unloaded by free labourers. A large reinforcement oi police has been despatched to preserve order. July -0. Sonic distention exists it, the ranks of tl-.o labour body, the origin being the action of the labour representatives 111 supporting the Government. Thi' country round Jcrildciic is an immense sea. Sixty thousand travelling sheep have been stuck up by the Hoods, and it. is feared they must peiisli. News from Fiji announces the death of Mr Dently, a Fiji legislator. Buisrank, July IS. The motion for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the •'shearing war" was rejected lay -il to 0. Adki.aii>t:, July 17. The want of confidence debate ended in a Government victory by a majority of four.