LATEST AUSTRALIAN

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2500, 2 September 1890, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN

(Per Press Association.—Coftrkjht.) (by submarine gable.) (Received September, 2, 1.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Yesterday. Toe Pev. Mr Gardiner has returned to Sydney to attend the preebytery nod answer charges brought against hiin. fie stated that ho will probably appeal against tho decision of the Divorce Court, which granted a decree nisi to his wife. Tbs presbytery meet to-morrow. The Wag ga Gold Cup resulted as follows: Yauko 1 ; Defiance 2 ; Yarra 3. Time 2mins. 44secs. The Government are erecting barricade* on the Peninsula Company’s wharf. Tbe men on strike are much incensed at Ibis action, and the Labor Defence Committee have written to the Government that they will not be responsible for the action of the men. The proceedings of the Miners’ Confer' ence are being conducted privately. The crews of the steamers Taieri and Tarawera have been discharged. The Ohau’b crew refuse to leave the vessel, and the Mararoa’s have refused doty. A shipment of fish by the Utter vessel! has been landed. The new Mercantile Officers’ Association is making substantial headway, and it is not allied with any other labor organisation. It is expected that th« members of this Association will receive precedence in filling up vacancies oaoaed by the present crisis. The Tasmanian S.N. Company now hai the Melbourne-Tasmaniaa trade in iti own hands. Tbe Australian United S N. Company have the Sydney Tasmanian trade ; whill the Melbourne traffic is at a standstill Both Howard Smith’s and Mass* Huddarl, Parker and Company’s fteet are wholly laid by. The T.S.N. GompaoJ and the A.U.S.N. Company are werkinj their boats slowly by means ©f free crewi and it is expected that during the west most of the other gwpanies will restm*

wort Vo<3or similar conditions. As ▼eseoi’s Complement is mads they are to be despatched. ■ ~ "Kemp emphatically declines to row any one until after the match with O’Connor. Walker’s sawmill at Balmain was destroyed by fire. The damage ia estimated at £B,OOO, MELBOURNE, Yesterday. The wharf laborers working for the s.s. Mooawai ha»e been called out consequent on the Union Company deciding to employ labor. The Argu* has an article to day dealing with the New Zealand Railway Commissioners* annoal report, in which it states that in railways as in other matters it looks as if the sister colony had fairly turned the corner and is to be congratulated accordingly. Comparing the New Zealand Railway returns with Victorian, the Argus states that the working expenses are six per cent, less than last year’s Victorian rates, and that the lines now pay three per cent, while ours this year give very little more. Larrikins have set fire to a shed ereeted by the free laborers. The Collingwood gas works are extinguished, and the Corporation light the city by electricity to-night. Freights were raised another 25 per cent to-dsy. (Received September 2, 10.40 a.m.") SYDNEY, This day. The Orient mail steamer left up to time. The Mararoa is discharging by the help of free labor. Fully a hundred men are employed oo the Union Coy’s, wharf. The stevedores have formed an Association which has the full support of the •onthern collieries and the Steamship Owners’ Association. After September the Gas Company will ent off the supply between sunrise and snnset and the Directors state that they may have to forego the use of gas altogether in order to maintain street lighting during the strike. The Minister of Public Works proposes to borrow a quarter of a million pounds from the loan funds in order to repair the main roads of the colony, which have •offered considerable damage from the recent phenomenal rains. The steamer Cuzco had a peculiar experience on her last voyage. After leaving Gibraltar, a tidal wave struck the ressel, sweeping her decks and doing a largo amount of damage. Nearly every one on board was injured more or less, and some so seriously that they had to be landed at Naples. Many persons had limbs broken. Mr Dow, who left the cabinet in conaequence of hie connection with the Premier Building Society, lias been re*The Minister of Lands, Mr Deakin, becomes Solicitor-General, and Mr Patteraou, in addition to the Customs, takes the Postmaster-Generalship. The Government has been unable to find the rock upon which the Carlisle was wrecked. ADELAIDE, This day. The earliest sown and most promising wheat in the north-eastern hundreds has keen literally eaten down by swarms of rabbits.