LATEST AUSTRALIAN

Waipawa Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3549, 16 January 1897, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN

(PIB PRESS ASSOCIATION.—OOPYRIGHT.) (BY SUBMARINE CABLE.) SYDNEY, Yesterday. Tbe engineers passed a resolution this evening deciding to suspend tbe rale pro bibiting men working with non unionists for threo months. ADELAIDE, Yesterday The South Australian Register's fore oast of the wheat harvested ia 2,500,000 bushels, an average of two and a half buabels per acre, while tbe food and seed requirements will amount to 3 000,000 bushels. MELBOURNE, Yesterday Tbe revolver which Phillips posted to bis brother on the day ancoeediog the murder of Brady has been recovered, and blood stains were found on it. PORT DARWIN, Yesterday Four of the London Pearling Company’s luggers were lost and soven members of their crews drowned during the recent cyclone. (Received 10 a.m) SYDNEY, This day Postmaster-General Cook is highly satisfied at the report of the Pacific Cable Conference. He thinks it will result in Ibe matter beiug gone on with at once He is much gratified that the conference adopted nearly all the recom meodations cf tho Australian colonies. Tbe barque St Mary’s Bay from Sharpness experienced a terrible gale off Tasmania. Five men were washed overboard, two being drowned, and the chief officer’s leg was broken. MELBOURNE, This day

An influential deputation of the Prosby terian Assembly drew tbe attention of tbe Premier to the influence the French were gaining in the New Hebrides, aod tbe action cf French traders ia carrying on a business in firearms and liqnor. Tbe deputation urged that the matter be considered at the meeting of tho Federal Council. Mr Turner promised to bring tbe matters under tbe notice of the Coon cil. (Received 10 10 a m.) PERTH, W.A., This day A large baiqne ia ashore, apparently desortod, at Jnrien Bay. It is supposed to bo tbo Europa, from Glasgow to Frtemantlo with a general cargo. ADELAIDE, This day Tbe secretary of the local branch of the Engineer’s Association bas received infor mation from headquarters that it has been decided that members could return to tbe Adelaide Company’s steamers. A mooting of the local engineers confirmed the decision.

York, charged with forging the names of certain sharebrokers to mining telegrams, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months on each charge. The more serious charges wore not proceeded with. (Received 10.15 a m.) BYDNEY, This day

Tbe engineers ae a body are little short of disgustod at tbe result of their efforts to secure better terms, and express their feelings in no measared language, “ Knowing what we know now,” said one of them, “ and that an honorable understanding with the owners is impossible, we relied on their word, and made tbe inconvenience to the public as light as possible, and this is our reward Wo ought to have paralysed tbe entire traffic, and then, perhaps, wo would have been listened to with some effect. We have been out-generalled, and that’s the whole fact.” These senti ments are echoed by most of the engineers who regard their defeat as a most crushing one. As in most cases of this kind, the loaders come in for bard words. It is said that the power of the owoors was ooderrated and the strength of the engineers overrated, and that throughout, tbe leaders showed a lament able failure to grasp the tru) situation. Thiti, together with misunderstandings with the Wellington branch, and tbo unscrupulous conduct of some of tbe Melbourne owners io bringing pressure to bear on their old servants, is given as a reason for tbeir defeat. That pres sure, tbe engineers bold, was more than these old servants could stand, and one man who was seen last night stated that tbe Melbourne committee said that it was absolutely necessary to close the strike before further defections took place.