AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 18 November 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(per united pjres3 association.) Melbourne, Nov 8. H.M.s. Nelson was to be docked on the Gup day, bat the labourers could not be induced to work. Thirty shillings a day was offered them, but 'in was no use, and the authorities had to wait till the next day. She. is now in dock. On Sunday there were 8000 visitors aboard. The crowd was so excessive that marines had to fix bayonets to keep back the rush. . . _ ._' - '"-• The Government have come to an amicable arrangement with the insurance companies for settlement of claims concerning the fire at the Government Printing Office, and have accepted £12,000, The. amount originally claimed was A sad affair occurred near Bright, in the north-eastern district. Two young men, named Itadcliffa and Fitzgerald, quarrelled over a foot race, and agreed to fight. - JRadcliffe struck Fitzgerald on :th"ech6stj' and, after fighting for some -thne.'killed him. Both faniil ; es of the combatants are well known in the district. A man named John Brennan, who recently arrived from Cal'fornia, has drowned himself in the Yarra. A couple of days before he had been robbed of J-100, and it is thought this preyed upon his mind. On Sunday last a boy found a bottle on the coast, near Geelong, containing papers with these words : — " Loch Garry Bunk off Sway, 2nd November. All hands lost. Captain on ship till last moment. — John Erskine, captain." A ship of that name left Geelong for London on Wednesday, but it is almost certain this bottle business is a hoax. Sydney. Nov 8. Hudson Bros, have cabled Home for men. They state that, in their opinion, the time has arrived for employers of labour to govern their establishments as obey think proper. The strike continues. Examination of the Northampton shews that a hole 15ft long was saved from disastrous inflow by the inside cement being unbroken. The sentence of death on Henry Tester, murderer, at Deniliquin, has been carried out. Adelaide, Nov 8. The Lower House has refused, by a large majority, to recognise the action of last cession in .charging postage on newspapers. Tremendous heathar. been experienced throughout the colony.