AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Sydney, December 22
It is feared that a miners' ptrike will take place in the Newcastle district at the end of the year. The miners consider the hewing rate is at present low enough, and that if the colliery owners were to combine it would be a great advantage, and the latter would be able to obtain a higher selling price. Andrews has been committed for trial on a charge of using seditious language in connection with the recent shearing cases.
Melbourne, December 22. At Corop, near Bendigo, a lunatic named Price beat his sister to death with a chair. Adelaide, December 22.
. The Railway Commissioner Bilh providing for the appointment of one Commissioner only, has passed. The salary is not to exceed .£ISOO a year. Brisbane, December 22.
The Government has decided to throw open 1,500,000 acres throughout the colony for selection as grazing and homestead farms.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 21
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