LATEST AUSTRALIAN

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3106, 31 July 1894, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN

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(BY SUBMARINE OABLa)

SYDNEY, Yesterday The shearers on Burren station have struck. A squad of fully-armed police has been despatched to the scene to preserve order. The owners intend to prosecute the men for breaking their agreement. The Eekbank ironworks, which recently closed down, have resumed work on a partial co operative system. A Utter has been received from a pioneer of the New Australian settlement iu Paraguay, in which tho writer draws a doleful picture of the condition of Lane’s party who left tho settlement. The trouble, it appears, arose over the second batch of immigrants wishing to depart from the constitution. The writer considers that the second batch are making a tool of Kidd, and thinks that further trouble is likely to arise.

The Governor has taken up a similar position to the Earl of Glasgow with respect to the Legislative Council appointments. After Sir George Dibbs had resigned the Governor asked who the Premier advised should ho sent for. The latter replied that he could not give any advice, and his Excellency theD, on bis own initiative, sent for Mr G. U. Reid, the leader of the Opposition. Mr Barton was included in Sir George Dibbs’ list of nominees for tho Upper House, but that gentlemau declined. MELBOURNE, Yesterday The Premier infuses to be swayed by the threat of political interference regarding the proposed dismissal of railway employes, and declares that tho scheme of retrenchment as propounded by the Government must be rigidly carried out (Received 11.10 a m.) SYDNEY, This day Parliament is summoned to meet on August 7th. BRISBANE, This day Hausmann, an accountant ia the Lands Department, has been sentenced to two years’ for embezzlement, but tho sentence has been suspended under the Probation Act.