AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph -Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8086, 26 September 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph -Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received September 25, at 11.35 a.m. Perth, September 215. Tho Japanese at Roebuck Bay sub* scribed L1000 in three days towards tho war fund. Newcastle, September 25, Arrived — Pohorua, from Auckland. SYD-Shf, September 25. Abou-b 100 unionists in the Wil* caunh district burned tbo drafting yards in one district, and destroyed three miles of rabbit fence. Thoy then visited another station, smashed the pumping machinery to fragments, and tired tbo engine-house. The police extinguished tho fire, arrested 24 men, and soized a quantity of firearms and ammunition. Melbourne, September 25. Obituary — Martin Loughlio, the well-known sportsman. Mr Turner finds himself in a difficulty with regard to the Labor party. Should ho include one of its members in his Cabinot, ho would risk his own re-election. It k expected that Me T. Smi6h, who sympathised with tho Inbor party without being actually allied to it, will received a portfolio os a compromise. Mr Trenwith, tho Labor leader, was offered tho Chair* mauship of Committees, bub declined it, contending that the party should ba represented in tho Cabinet, as it is in tho now Sydney Ministry. Received .September 25, at 3 p.m. Melbourne, September 25. The Govornmonb ha8 resigned, and tho Governor has summoned Mr Turner, leador of the Oppositiou, to i form a new Government.