AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3521, 11 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pkk Elkutrio Telegkavi'. — Copykioht.) (Reuter's Agency.) (Received 12.15 p.m., Jan. 9th.l Adelaide. Jan. 9. The produce market remains dull. Shipping wln-nt is qiinted at 4< Id to 4s 2d ; town flour, £9 to £9 ss, country brands, £8 10s to £8 15s. [E«oeived 1.30 p.m.. Jan. 9th.l MeLBOXJKNK. Jilll. 9. Mr Service has arranged to address iiis constituents at Castleinaiae on Wednesd ay next, and Mr B<Try will meet the leade rs of the Liberal party on Thursday. It is expected that some announcement will t « made m regard to impending changes i n the Ministry, recently foreshadowed i o the Argils. F^rty-tive wharf laborers have arrivec I from Adelaide io replace the strikers. The men have been placed on board Huddart, Parker and Co.'s steamer, m order j tn prevent intimidation from outsiders. ' ;TheTra<le Couicil have held a meeting, land a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the Laborers' Union, and the various Trades Unions are warmJy supporting the action of the strikers. The returns of the Victorian gold fields for the past year show a total of 810,000 ounces, being a small increase on 1884. (Received 0.30 a.m., Jan. 11th.) The forty-five men who were brought over from Adelaide by the shipowners, have joined the Union men, reaardlesa of the contracts under which they were engaged. Six of the laborers who came from Sydney have also made common with the strikists. (Received 1.5 a.m., Jan. 11th.! Jan. 10. Arrived — Orient Company's s.s. , Garonne, with the English mails, datec I London, December 4t,h.