VESSELS OVERDUE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5886, 18 July 1890, Page 3

VESSELS OVERDUE.

Several sailing vessels in the Now Zea land-Sydney trade are reported overdue.

UNIONISM.

The Labor Council have refused the application of tho Australasian Society of Engineers for affiliation. In view of the action of the Shearers Union, the pastoralists and woolbrokers are forming an Association.

SUICIDE OP A FRENCH CONVICT. Melboubne, This day. Pierre Dourr, a French convict, undergoing solitary confinement at Pentridge, while iv a state of despondency, hanged himself in his cell.

THE SEAMEN.

The ship-owners have decided not to concede tho demands of the men, consideriug them altogether Unreasonable. They are willing, however, to increase tho pay of the officers.

The ship-owners are joining the Steam-ship-owners' Association, and are signing a bond for providing the formation of a fund.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA,

Adelaide, This day. A motion has been carried in the House which allows ministers of religion to accept a scat on Municipal Councils, but a motion that women should also be eligible was rejected.

A TERRIBLE VOYAGE

Brisbane, This day. The captain of the Zodiac, his wife and two daughters, 3Vlise Brown, passenger, aud six men comprising the crew, have been landed from the rescuing steamer. Tho Zodiao had a terrible passage and when she was abandoned tbero was nine feet of water in the hold, and the crew had been at tho pumps for twenty-four hours. The night before settling she was running before the gale, and when Camden Haven was sighted at daylight tho deck cargo was jettisoned, and tho dock was swept of everything before she was abandoned.

TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENTS. A private members' bill, providing for :riennialParliament*, has been road asecond inie.