AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 104, 29 January 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

k (t+ r Pmm AmoomM«.* Bf BUmtv Tilwh RnO'iv'-d 6 40 p m. * Shipping. Btbwbt January SB. Arnvod yesterday Botomahana [ inr - Vrtl an! : Hauroto from Wei kagtoa. Postponod. Srnii, January W. Game to the ram. the oriekat match. N. w South Wale* v. Victoria, bai born postponed. Markets for Batter. Mn aorax*. January 28. The Agent General suftge.ta that ftnun, th- •ou’harn proa I •.'** of Trance, and Italy ought to offer good markets for colonial butter. Receired 120 a.m. Shipping Swart. January 28. Arrived—Tasmania from Auckland Mbuoi'eke. January 28. Sailed ysaurday Te Ansu for Bluff. Insnred. Srmir, This Hay. The steamer Kanahooka was inaure.l in the Australian office for £IOOO. Indignant Teachers. Mrutot aas, January 28. A deputation from the school teachers waited on the Minister of h.location and declared the proposed toppage of sick pay was degrading and humiliating. They said they would rather have a reduction made in their wages, as the proposal implied that t> ackers were malingerers. The Minister replied that they labor, d under a mtsappr. h. nsion, and the eiigency of the 'state required retrenchment. He pointed out that last y. ar the amount paid to teachers for sick pay was £10.700. Received 12.15 p.m.

The Kanahooka'fc Insurances. BaisesNß, This Day. Th< Sou'h British, National, and N.w Zen and Insurance Companies hold reinsuiances on the steamer Kanahooka. The Colliery Disputes. Sydney, This Day. Tha managem- nt of the Stockton coin ly ha- appoed for police protection as soon as work is resumed, which, with tbu assistance of non unionists, is expec’cd to be in the course of a few days. Small Box. Sydney, this Day. Advices receivid show that the smallpox epidemic I-. making terrible raise.- among the Phillipine Islands. The average daily death rate la about tw. nty, and nwr 8.500 persons have dud sines* the oul break of the • pidcmic.

Eggb for England. Melboibne, This Day. With refer, nee to a press cablegram from London announcing the arrival of a full shipment of eggs, the Agricultural D paruuent explains that the eggs were sent when the wholesale price here wa< 2sd per dozen The •hiptu, nt realised 7s 7d per “ long" hundred in London. The Parramatta's Passengers. Aurnu, This day. Arrived—Parramatta, from London. Passengers for New Zealand : Mrs nd Miss Wdlismson, Messrs Williamson. Coleman, Penseut, Conningham, and Homan. A Maritime Outrage. Mnsorm, This day. The Adelaide Steamship Coy's lighter was found drifttng down the Yarra with the watchman missing There are indications that the lighter waa purposely turned adrift owing, it is believed, to the ill-feeling of the waterside men.