AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
-♦ (Received August 30, 9.59 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Fifty years ago, to-day, the first Royal mail steamer from Britain arrived at Sydney, the vessel being the P. and" 0. steamer Chusan. Twenty thousand tons of maize are afloat for New South Wales and Queensland, from Argentina. Coonamble is tho centre of the shearing trouble. About 300 shearers are encamped there. Extensive picketting is going on and a number of men have been fined for assaults on non-Unionists. Melbourne, This Day. Federal Ministers ridicule tho statement that Sir E. Barton was offered a position on the British Court of Appeal, with a salary of £5000 a year.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7243, 26 August 1902, Page 3
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