AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6374, 9 February 1892, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYEIOIIT.] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. CABLE COMPANY'S DEFICIT. STRIKE OF JAPANESE. GENERAL RIOT FEARED. THE RESIDENTS ARMING. DAMAGE TO BARQUE DOON. (Received February 9, noon.) Sydney, This day. The National Association has issued its platform, practically throwing down the gauntlet to the labor party. Tho platform includes a dual vote, reduction in the number of Parliamentary representatives, singl-i electorates, registration of voters, economy in public exp-jnditure, Federation, and 1 >cal government. The deficit of the Cable Company for the year, owing to the reduction in the cable rates, is estimated at £57,000. The Rev. W. R. Fletcher, M. A., represents the Congregational Union of New South Wales at the Wellington Conference. Bei-bane, This day. Over three hundred Japanese employed on tbe Goondi sugarplantation, near Geraldtown, have struck work, owing to a reduction having been made iv their wages for time 10.-t through wet weather. The residents of Geraldtown are arming in case of emergency. Warrants which were issued for the arrest of four of the men on a charge of absconding from service have not been served, owing to the fear that an attempt to arrest them would provoke a general riot. Hobabt, This day. The barque Doon, which left Liverpool on November 3rd for Wellington, New Zealand, has arrived here, having been seriously damaged in a gale. She has lost her mainmast. Tho voyage will be resumed as soon as repairs are effected.