AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 168, 29 June 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association) Received 0.40 a.m. Uneasy Movements. Sydney, Jnne 28. Advices from the country district* report there is a general feeling among the men against a strike, hot the leaders and organisers are endeavoring to induce them not to work until their demands are conceded. A Suspended Official. Sydney, June 28. A prominent official in the accountants branch in the Land Department has been suspended in connection with his accounts. Small Pox in Perth. Perth, June 28. A case of supposed small-pox. was discovered on the steamer Sultan from Singapore. Befere the doctor reported it hundreds of people had visited the vessol. Received 11.10 a.m. Purchase of an Emerald Mine Perth, This Day. Mr Stanley, of Dunedin, ha* purchased on behalf of an English syndicate, an emeiald mine, which is one of the finest properties on the Murchison fields. Tasmanian Politics. Hobart, This Day. The Land Tax Bill has passed through committee. The business of the Legislative Assembly is practically finished, and if the Council passes the taxation bills the session will close in the second week in July.