AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3354, 8 January 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[SPECIAL TO THE WELLINaxON POST.] /, MELBOURNE, Ja>\ 1. The seamen belonging to the ships now in port have struck. They demand £7 per month for the voyage from Melbourne to London, or £6 per montli for the round trip. Fully 150 men already are out on strike, and the movement is spreading rapidly. Several ships are now lying idle in port unable to procure hands to work thfm. An absurd statement has found currency in reference to Emmett and Ulyett, the two Yorkshire professional cricketers, who were playing in Lord Harris' English team. It is broadly asserted that they sold the recent match with the Australians, which was won by the latter with ten wickets to spare, and that having arranged with the bookmakers that the English team should lose the match, they took care by their play to bring about this pre-arranged result. This allegation is absolutely untrue, as the match was played and won entirely on its merits. This is freely admitted by both sides. ; / /"""The miners in the employ of the Bulli Company — who struck work on Dec. 24, because the directors had employed Chinese seamen on board the colliers owned by the Company and engaged in the trade — have intimated their willingness to return to work now that the Sydney anti-Chinese strike haß been settled. The Company, however, have decided to lock out all those of the miners who belonged to the Union, and joined the recent strike. [bebte»'s telbqbams.] MELBOURNE, Jan. 7. On Thursday, four men answering to the description of the Kellys, well mounted, crossed the Murrunibidgee going towards a station. They had two pack horses with them. A deputation from the Harbour Trust waited on the Minister of Lands with a proposal for the supply of half a million tons of silt for the reclamation of swamps around the city, at a cost of two shillings per ton. Mr Longmoro said he would consult his colleagues. SYDNEY, Jan. 7. The miners and other employes of the Bulli Colliery have been dismissed, and all work is at a standstill.