AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6026, 25 March 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Per Press Association,] (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 24..;. . Arrived ; Jubilee from Wellington, S Industry from Bluff ; sailed : Rotokino « for Wellington. > • vi The wreck near Kempsoy is supposed ; : to be the barque Rose M. / ; Mr Kingston, of South Australia, ;w»s * examined by the Labor Commission K to-day, and he set forth the objects of his Conciliation Bill. So far as Adelaide was concerned, his opinion was that the Jajk« strike was provoked by the masters, arid ; he did not think. shipowners were justified in opposing the affiliation of ships officers to the Labor Unions. Both sides should have freedom of contract A life buoy has been found near Jervia Bay marked "Rainbow, Auckland." Ifc.*. is supposed the Teasel went down with all : hands last November. Mar. 25. Mr J. D. Fitzgerald, who recently visited England on behalf of the Labor Unions in Australia, in the course of a speech which he delivered before th» J Trades and Labor Council last night;; announced that during an interview he had with Sir Geo. Grey, the. latter unfolded to him a scheme of nationalisation, of coal mines which he intended to submit to the New Zealand Parliament next sea- ■ I sion. !. ' .'■■ ■ .' • "'.-',.•■ . ! MELBOURNE, March 24.; ;^ Mr Langridgej Chief Secretary of Yvntoria, dropped dead from syncope to-day* b;* Sir J. Pender- wires that, personally ho-; is anxious to begin the reduction in cable- i rates immediately, but the, Indian , administrators dare not commence till Germany and Russia have formally approy.sd. of the agreement; I Mar. 28. An Indian, hawker has been found * guilty of the murder of one of hiscountryvl, men at He&lesville and sentenced to d«ath« „ ADELAIDE^ March 84, The total yield of wheat is estimated At 10,613*000 bushels, a decrease oa s the previous harvesti of 4,060,p00/,busheis. The falliagioff i^ due to thd large quantitybeing out for hay upba^eite^e.of red rust and locusts. ;.;."= :";\;' : BRISBANE^ Mabcij 26Y Nows haa been received from .German New Guinea of a 7 terrible epidemic^whieh 1 .-H is raging at Finschhafen, v= Thirteen Europeans and thirty Chinese died~in*a--fortnight. The diseaee resemblo» oholejra, and in some cases death intervenes within eighteen hours after the pjßrsOri ha>J been attacked. The village of Finsohhaf^ ie about to be abandoned; and it is probable that the settlement will be removed: f to Frederick Wilhelm Haven, or Ale^twf