AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6881, 20 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Assooiatio i— Bleotrio Telegraph— Copyright mi „ HOBART, Jaj.. 19. The Ruahine Bailed for Wellington at four o'clock this afternoon. She brought twelve passeugers for Australia and 179 for New Zealand. The latter include Major-General Hutchison. Jan. 20. — At the conference of Anglican clergymen, a debate took place on the question of organic unity throughout Australasia, and resolutions were carried with a view of promoting unity of the dioceses in the / various colonies. Canon Andrews strongly * opposed the motion because it meant having ' in Sydney a patriarch or archbishop after JT the form of the Yatican. f SYDNEY, Jan. 19. I"" Sailed : Wakatipu for Wellington. ' The crew of the Eillan Donan have ar-« * rived here. The captain attributes the loss\ of the vessel to the altered appearances of )»>. the islands of the Chesterfield group, evidently from the result of the hurricane, ancT"^ to a north-east current where the chart shows a south-east current. If Jan. 20. — It is an open secret that Copeland's friends are addressing Sir G. Dibbs to retain him in the Ministry on the ground* that the punishment was too great for the offence. Ministers appear to sympathise with the ex-Minister of Lands, and it ia hinted that possibly no ohange will be made. The directors of the Metropolitan Colliery have declined to refer the dispute to arbitration, therefore the mine will be thrown idle from to-day. Jan. 20.— The Labor Conference has carried a resolution protesting against the influx of alien and colored labor, and is now discussing the unemployed question. MELBOURNE, Jan. 19. At au inquest on a young man named *•>" Crawcour, shot by a burglar -who was attempting to rob his father's shop at Williamg* town last week, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Knox, and found Kent guilty as an accessory before the fact. Jan. 20.— Arrived : e.s. Pifeshire from London. BRISBANE, Jan. 20. There arc very heavy floods in the North, and the Cumberland Gold Mining Company had their large dams swept away, together with £20,000 or £30,000 worth of tailings. THURSDAY ISLAND, Jan. 20. _fl Dredge 404 has sailed for Timaruvia New* castle.