AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5173, 19 March 1888, Page 3

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Sydney. March 16. -n. « a Movune, from Shanghai and hSt Kong, ErriVed with one Chineao Hong -- on »'" . fom t h o worst form of The Tesselhaabeen quarantined.

March 1 1. k Chinaman who succumbed yesterday a passenger for Greym AUSTRALLVN Ut ° CENTENARY. Wis ExC ellency Lord Carrington has Ihe telegraphic accounts received of the » mi;« t and loyal celebrations which took placet operation of the centenary of the colony. LOCOMOTIVE QUESTION. The locomotive tender question » not Jfe Si accounts has not proved suc*.l « vet It is believed they cover 1-gest defalca•fcions occurred. THE BULLI VICTIMS.

An obelisk in memory of the victims «*■? £;,1 I colliery accident will be unthe anniversary of the disaster. N SW. PARLIAMENT. SSta. ™i» -op"* "r "'° ll °™t P rnceuu ..t, „ ~;„w to m-ouosirig trio cession. SHD? ON FIRE. TKe ship Arirtomme, with 2700 tons of consigned to San Franco caught fire at Newcastle at , o, ei.im. thu. mornHir. The firo is supposed to h,i\o Snafed in some flax which wa, stowed !X a looker. The pumps were set to «ork at once, and an immense body of -worn -v ■> > , when she water w« put -hip. t°Z e A to ruthe W ashore. At 4 tht afternoon the fire was got under •'clock *w alter sustaine d any The cost of repair, is estimated at £3000. COLLIERY STRIKE IMMINENT. Newcastle, March I<. A strike is imminent _t the Souft A. stride ■-> „,:,.„ a dispute with Watatah for taking out the men as to the -waste is the cause of the ais *% CHINESE QUESTION. Melbourne, March li. all the Colonies. v memorandum t _o colonial q presented by tne o ul . t eJ:C optional London, P K rot f, st ;"f, on -K-elation to the ask. that the Chinese. cololl y shall make a Government of eaclico ony l hmou report on thee^P®"^ n \ ho lea ° lts wit h in force in such colony and tno which such legislation has been a in order that Lord Sahsbu-7 £$ ? tho the memorandum, which v * he '"V" * *£ recent visit of the Chinese °°!-^ O *K the colonies. The Uiat the Chinese are not ™ treated in Crown colonies, and that at m Straits Settlements, at Hong Kong, ana even in some of the Australian colonies, the SsenUtives of Her Majestry the Queen have borne testimony to the yd™ rf ™ Chinese and to their orderly behavior, me Memorandum further protests agam** to «ceptional treatment which the Chinese Buffer in the Australian colonies and asks for the elimination of any laws which may be at variance with treaty obligations and apposed to international usage. WINE DUTIES.

Tue abolition of the French wine duties «nd the withdrawal of large supply of ganish wines to make brandy areexpected to result in a large increase in the sale of pure Australian wines in Europe. CARTRIDGE FACTORY.

Tho Government have offered a site for a cartridge factory near Melbourne to an English firm. SCOTCH CROFTERS.

Brisbane, March I<s. A fund in aid of the crofters has been yafcd in this city, and now amounts to jfcjOO,