Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 107, 29 August 1896, Page 4

Late Australian News.

(Evening Post.) There lias been a reduction in pay among the more .highly paid officers in Ike Dredge Service at Sydney, but the working men will receive the same remuneration as before. The Attorney - General of South Australia ha.? promised to introduce fresh banking legislation dealing with institution.-; over which local creditors have no control. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council of New South Wales on old age pensions has examined the secretaries of the A.-J.C. and Tattersail's Clubs as to the effects of horseracing in causing distress among the peopleA s:art has been made in connection with the engagement of girls at the SvJnty Telephone Exchange as switch p't'ndanis, ten of them being now employed. ilr \V. M'Jlillan has stated that if necessary the whole of the money for the extension of the railway into the city of Sydney could be raised locally in an hour. Premier Reid told a deputation which waited upon him with reference to the extension of the railway into the city that the Government would devote • its whole power and influence to getting the question put in a more satisi&c.wr\ lit.ion. The farmers and Settlers' Conference of New South Wales has r- r» resolution of the last Cnn'er. R.i • favoring a Protective POM., Sine it recent conference of Premier.-, correspondence has taken place between Premier Reid and the heads of the other Australian Governments with reference to legislation dealing with the admission of colored labor. A Bill has been prepared authorising the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales to convert the whole of the steam tramways into electric lines. . Premier Reid, in answer to a question in the Legislative Assembly, said that there was no hope of securing relief for those who had been retrenched from the public service. At Greytown (Victoria) a party of miners have won 17oz of gold, from seven tons of ore, chiefly of sandstone formation. Rear-Admiral Bridge has returned to Sydney on the flagship Orlando after a visit to New Zealand and Queensland. It ia stated by the Pastoralists' Union representative that there is a lack of competent shearers in the Riverina district. Messrs Williamson and Musgrove have purchased the Australian rights of a new opera called "The Scarlet Feather," which they will stage with the assistance of imported artists. A young man named James Gorman died at Murrurandi from a wound on the head, alleged to have been inflicted by his father at a dance given to celebrate the opening of a woolshed. The \\c t Australian Government has ordered additional railway rolling stock to the value of £750,000. The New Sooth Wales team of footballers, in their Queensland trip, played seven matches, sis of which they won. The imports of Victoria for the month of July showed an increase of £2IJi.3X;"». and the i-xports an increase of £ 160,424. Frederick Treleven, who was locked up at Broken Hill on a charge of drunkenness, has died. The medical evidence showed that he was not intoxicated,, but was suffering from paralysis caused by a fall. Mr Charles Tynan, the Victorian Secretary for Education, has died at Cairns (Queensland), while on a trip for the benefit of his health. The strike of shearers.at Batterbone , near Cconomble, New South ftefcfyia, stilt eon tinned The men also work at Ewnreena»t 'f.£V