AUSTRALIAN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7681, 15 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Bv Eleotbio Telbobaph.—Copyright. (REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.) Sydney, January 14. Arrived, yesterday evening—Mariposa, from Auckland. The New South Wales Seamen’s Union has espoused the cause of the Melbourne wharf laborers, and the steamer Cheviot is in consequence unable to ship a crew. His Eminence Cardinal Moran will leave very shortly for New Zealand. Melbourne, January 14. A rrived—Waihora, from Bluff. The Hon James Service addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents at Castlemaine last night. In the course of his speech Mr Service claimed that a coalition Ministry was most beneficial to the country, and urged its continuance under Messrs Gillies and Deakin. He claimed credit' for his Ministry for haring abolished political patronage in the Civil Service, and also for doing away with the political management of the railways and substituting a permanent Board. Mr Service informed his constituents that the cause of his retirement from political life was illhealth. The men on board the Union Company’s s.s. Waihora joined the Union en masse on the arrival of the vessel here. The Stewards’ and Cooks’ Union held a meeting yesterday, when it was resolved to join the strike. The medical authorities, at the Melbourne Hospital state that on Tuesday morning, the day of the Collingwood Bank outrage, a youth came to the Hospital, and was treated for a bullet wound. It is believed by the police that the individual in question is identical with one of the would-be robbers, who has, up to the present, eluded pursuit.

(Received January 14. 7 45 p.m.) Melbourne, January 14.

On receipt of the notice from the Seamen’s Union intimating their intention to go out on strike in 24 hours, the shipowners withdrew the letter which they had written to Mr Murphy, the Secretary of the Trades Council, agreeing to the appointment of a Board of Conciliation under certain conditions.

Thirty-two of the men who were brought to Victoria from New Zealand by th’e Waihora, are now working for the Union Company, while a similar number are emploved by the A.S.N. Co. The attitude of the’ remaining men is uncertain. (Received January 16,1.40 a.m.) Melbourne, January 14.

In pursuance of the notice given to the shipowners, all the seamen employed on the intercolonial steamers have struck work, with the exception of men belonging to the Union uompany of New Zealand and the Adelaide Steamship Company. The latter Company has yielded to the demands of the Union, because it already pays Union rates in Adelaide. The seamen and firemen employed on the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company’s s.s. fateena, deserted just before ‘the

vessel was to- leave for Launceston. The captain, however, proceeded on his voyage, relying on the mates and engineers, and n number of volunteers among the steerage passengers to work the ship. Hobart; January 14. ' The' Shaw, SnVill. nnd Albion Co.’s s.s. Doric arrived here-this-afternoou.