AUSTRALIAN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 522, 23 October 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

The steamer Alberta, from Japan to Melbourne, has struck on Sutherland Reef, and become a total wreck. The crew were saved.

A big conference of miners is being held in New South Wales, and it is hopeful that a settlement o; the present strike trouble will be arrived at. There is trouble bet aeen the Melbourne master butchers andthe men, and a lockout is threatened on Sa urday. A shearers' delegate at Brisbane has been heavily fined for mating men to leave their work.

COLONIAF. TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND.

Liet night. JO’ftph Baxter, 45, shoe h<tntw fon Tuesday morning, and die! tn the afternoon » Deceased had made unsuccessful apeculations.

News from KuftOtunu goldfield Is of a veiy exciting n.-DU'e, hue there is little definite information yet to be obtained. Te Mahutu, he trinatio, has created much excitement at Te Kuiti, where he and his fol (rivers ejecred a numhrr of storekeepers and o>k j oss’ srion of the goods. A detachmeat of p lice went by train and arrested 22. iiio’uding the leader, without any'rouble, The prisoners were a great of curiosity on arriving In Auok and this evening.

SOUTHERN Last night. A verdict of gnfty was iou . . he murder ca e *t New P'ynvmth, Mahi Kahi, a recommendation to mercy being 'iiade. Toe prixO'irir m*i4 me Herer wis another Ma ri n*m he give. Hie Honor endorsed the veidict given.

Dari g a very boisterous passage made by the steamer Edward James, bound fnm M '’ueka to Greymnuth. the chi-f -fficer, Mr Earnshaw, was struck by floating debris, and had his thigh broken u> d u <-g out.