LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, January 4

Waikato Times, 14 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, January 4

Six Pi ime Minister's will be present at tlie Intercolonial Conference to be held here on the 13tli instant Fiji news to December 20th states that the King had received an autograph letter from President Grant recognising Ins sovereignty and international rights. The Newcastle miners are holding out for ten hours' work. The strike is likely to be protracted A ballet girl named Oabjrno was burnt duivng a pantomime nl the- Victoria Tlieatre. The war ■•chooner Ethel his returned from her first cruise She brings four prisoners, the crew of the Kate Giant, i-'.arged with kidnapping T!.e Govninment have acrepted tenders for eighteen locomotives, to be furnished bj Sidney firms. Melbourne, Jnnuarj ■*. The Governor (Lord Canterbury) will leave the colony in the steamer Mooltan, on tlie2Btn February. Govcrnoi B men will remain a short timem Sydney before coming to Y'ctoria Mount and Morris, convicted of the Carl murders, will be sentenced next Monday. A telegram was received on New Year's Day from the staff of the London Daily Telegraph, w islnng their colleagues of the Press in Australia a " llappv New Year." Agent-Geueral Childcrs, Sir W. Stawell, C. E. Brip l l, and Spendflevarom piinledEiliil i .en Cuinmiuuouord Jn I cud in. An influential meeting of wuol-i;rowura passed a rej > ution rpformiiiE; the m ■ n a r of conducting home gales, and in faror Of dix isles per yetr instead o£fi\c.