AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 274, 2 December 1882, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, November 21. A youth named Moore went to the Bank to make a deposit for his employers — Messrs Henderson, of Londsdale-streefc. He paid in £150 in notes and cheques, but kept £66 in. gold. He gave himself up to the police on Saturday, and is remanded for trial. Jameson, manager of the Commercial Bank at Heathcote was driving between Heathcote and Sandhurst on Friday. A man bailed him up, and pulled him from the buggy, and struck him violently, rendering him insensible. He then rifled Jameson's pockets, but overlooked £300 in bullion, which was in the buggy, also 1100 unsigned bank notes. Sydney. Work is proceeding- in the preparations to raise the Austral. The divers are still employed in closing all the apertures. The wharf laborers' strike still continues and is now causing' great inconvenience to the shipping- interest. The Austral enquiry has closed without anything satisfactory being 1 elicited as to the cause of the disaster. The captain, chief officer, and chief engineer failed to account for the accident; but the jury, in their verdict, found that they had been guilty of negligence in omitting to take proper precautions, as the whole operation of coaling was left to the supervision of the lamptrimmer, who was on duty as watchvnan from 6 p.m. to 0 a.m. Previous warnings had been given of the ship being tender and of lier listing, but they were unheeded. During a terrific thunderstorm a house at Woolloomoolloo was struck by lightning. Bhlsbane. The steamer Devonshire arrived at Buntlaberg on Saturday with a quantity of Cingalese on board, and about (iO Europeans attempted to oppose their landing 1 , but the coolies drew their knives, and the white men ran away, and afterwards the Europeans pressed the natives to leave work, but one coolie and the white ringleader were arrested, and affairs became quieter, and a coolie meeting- was arranged to take place at Rockhampton. Adelaide. The Nairne railway strike has virtually ended. Some hundreds of men have returned to work. The laborers' strike ab Port Adelaide is nearly over, all the employers but the Sputli Australian Stevedore Company having acceded to the terras demanded. A man named Buxton, missing from Border Town for some days, was found in a waterhole at Centretown, from which the principal water supply is drawn.