AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6542, 8 December 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Press Association— Electric Telegraph— Copyright, SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The steamer Port Pirie arrived at Newcastle to-day to load frozen meat, but the wharf laborers struck for Is 6d per hour. la connection with the proposed Newcastle coal trust with a capital of three millions it is stated that the valuation of the mines which they propose to amalgamate only amounts t0. £1,553,000. The Assembly by 32 to 28 rejected the first reading of a Bill to repeal the Payment of Members Act. Dec. 8. — Sir Henry Parkes in the course of a lengthy speech in the Legislative Assembly on Federation insisted that the electoral law in each state must be left to the state itself, that each colony entering the second convention must come into it free and untrammelled, and that the Lower Chamber must control the revenues of the Commonwealth. The Royal Society has received a donation of £100 from the Hon. Ralph Abercrembie, to bring about an exhaustive study of Australia. MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. Staples, Dilly, Haroldsou, and Norwood, directors of the Anglo-Australian Bank, were committed to trial. Oct. 8. — The body of a hospital patient suspected to have been cut up was exhumed and found to be intact. ADELAIDE, Dec. 7. Admiral Lord Scott and Sir R. Hamilton, ex-Governor of Tasmania, sailed for Eugland to-day. Oct. B— A vessel which has arrived here touched at Tristan D'Achuna, the principal of the three small islands in the South Atlantic, nearly midway between Africa and America, and reports that the crew of the barque Italia, which was bound from Grecriock to Cape Town with a cargo of coal, had landed on the island, the barque having been destroyed by fire. HOBART, Dec. 7. Arrived: Doric at 6 p.m. She sails for Wellington at 11 a.m. bo-morrow. She brings 47 passengers for Australia and 182 for New Zealand. BRISBANE, Deo. 8. Sailed : Pakcha for VTellington.