AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4859, 8 March 1887, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

£pER STEAJtEE AT AUCKLAND.] ' ; £peb peess' ASSOCIATION.] ■The Unemployed. „tutc»en3 Beats Samuels. The Weather. : " .Sydney, March 3. The Government aro .preparing for a Parliament on Tuesday, when the election of a Speatar,.takes pl*ce. .. The unemployed have .been aflW* monstrative, led by a man named, .M-c- - marched procession through the streets, and rront of the Government offices, when_theydemanded, to . see, the Premier. The ; police declined to allow them access, -..ana. McCormack would not be allowed to enter upon any terms. This" man urged themen; not to accept less than six shillings a day. Sir Henry Parkes saw the deputation, and gave them to understand that the Government would do all they could for them, but at the same time any attempt to create a. disturbance would be put down'with a strong hand; Since then about 2000 men ■were provided for on different relief works "* butcher-biHit Samuels in the 150 yards chamnion race jit Camngton Grounds yes14i rains, extending over the whole colony, have stopped traffic onjbe railways in the western interior. The average fall in tho central and western districts exceeds two inches. ;; - AlWpther 35,436 feet of space has been »pp_ef foi at the Exhibition, but th»b y represents the room which wll.bo -..; !.--.-_?■