LATEST AUSTRALIAN

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2499, 30 August 1890, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) (by submarine cable.) (Received August 30, 1.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, This day. The Mayor has commenced negotiations for bringing the strike to a conclusion. Free laborers are in excess of the demand. Arrived —Syren, from Kaipara, Sarah and Mary from the Bluff. NEWCASTLE, This day. Miners are dissatisfied at the action of the Trades and Labour Council, and they think that since they have been called out they ought to hav3 received better support from the Counoil. A meeting is to be held to-day to consider the matter. Arrived—Chithona, from Napier. BRISBANE, This day. Affairs in connection with the strike are quiet. MELBOURNE, This day. The city was left without gas last night, the Gas Coy. being desirous of storing what gas they had for to-night. The Government have issued a proclamation, forbidding unlawful assemblies in the trades Hall.

ADELAIDE, Aug. 30, The Chamber of Commerce has telegraphed to the Syduey, Melbourne, and Brisbane Chambers, asking them to take united action in urging their respective Governments to establish Boards of Concilation. The Sydney Chamber has replied, deprecating undue haste in the matter. MELBOURNE, Aug. 30. The Trades and Labor Council refused to hold a conference with shipowners, owing to the latter’s stipulations that officers should withdraw from affiliation. (Received August 30, 12.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, This day. A private letter received by a resident in Sydney from Mr Rowan, of the Pacific Cable Company, states that Sir J. Pender, on behalf of the Eastern Extension Cable Company, had entered into arrangements w!th certain Australian colonies by which the Company were to reduce the rates on cable messages to 4s per word provided that those colonies bore half the loss if any. He mentions that Queensland has stood out, and with regard to N.Z. it was somewhat doubtful if they had accepted the arrangement ; but he thinks they have assented. This, he asserts, practically means that Victoria, N.S.W., and N.Z. jointly may have to bear an annual charge of £5,400, which is just about the amount of the interest on the capital required to construct a cable from Queensland

via the Famming Islands, Fiji, and Hawaii to Vancouver. This latter expenditure, instead of falling on two or three colonies, would be willingly shared by Canada, Queensland, and Tasmania as well as other colonies, and probably by the Imperial Government, inasmuch as the latter’s refusal to contribute to the scheme propounded by Sir J. Pender was based on the fact that they would not subsidise cables unless for political and strategical reasons.