AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8697, 16 December 1899, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

) " . • . SYDNEY, Dm 14. : At a friendly conference of ; shipowners, . seamen, and firemen, the former agreed to ' raise wages ten shillings a month. 1 Nearly £6000 Jias already been "raised ■ for the colony's patridtio fund. . ;'. The Government statistician estimates : '■ ' 1 that it .is probable the wheat yield will" 1 average tan bushels. '„'-'■. At Broken Hill a man named He'nsel 1 quarrelled with a woman. The flatters sister, Mrs Jensen, interfered and received a fatal shot. A man named Whetsone in - ' disarming Hensel was severely gashed .in>;. ' the cheek with a razor. , Hensel then, cut fj his own throat. Hie condition is pre-^T^ cartons. . > Dec. 16.— The perpetrator of the Broken ' Hill tragedy is said to have a wife and - 1 family in New, Zealand. ; . ..- .-' .' ■'-'■•' The Premier anticipates he will dose the session early next week. The protracted tribal war in New Guinea . . has ended.' The natives attacked the police party and were badly defeated. The Magistrate afterwards succeeded in 1 patohing up peace amougst the contending tribes. ■■ ■ \ - Afire destroyed six business places at Kaitba. The damage is £7000. MELBOURNE, Djbo. 15. - Two men nave been arrested at Collingwood on suspicion of tha Rutherglen - robbery. ; ■ ■ . . ~ > Monsdalft, one of the Nineveh's small* pox patients, is dead. • COOLGARDIE, Nov. 15. A large meeting decided that all other means having failed to obtain legislative redress, especially in regard to Federation, the Queen be petitioned to .grant the gold* fields separation. ° < :