LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1893, Page 2

LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BATAVIA GOLD FIELDS.

WIBTH BBOTHEBS IN TROUBLE.

[PER B.S. SIANAPOUBI, AT THE BLUFF.]

Melbourne, January 23. The Salvation Army sent the Mayor of Adelaide a cheque for £86, m aid of the sufferers by the Broken Hill strike. Sydney merchants express the opinion that the long-delayed trade revival is now at hand.

A meeting has been arranged between the master bakers and their men, without the intervention of either the Adelaide Employers' Union or the Trades and L&bor Council, relative to the conditions under which chops are to ba worked. At present a minimum of £2 10s is tho wage for 48 hours per week. The masters want 60 hours for £2.

The Batavia Biver Goldfield is nearly worked out. Only 50 men are left, and six claims continue working.

Tho Unionist Prisoners' Fund, for the relief of families of Unionists imprisoned m connection with tho shearers' strike, shows a credit balance of £1800

Mr Boyce, 8.A., Principal of the Geelong Ladies' College, while fishing from some rocks, web washed off and drowned. Ec was 30 years of age, and leaves a widow and four children.

James Martin and William Dover, two Unionists sentenced to terma of imprison* ment for 6editious language and rioting, have been released after serving their time, and on arrival at Sydney received & hearty welcome from their Unionist friends, and each man was presented with a cheque for £92, being his share of the Unionist Prisoners' Fund.

Only two members of the new Victorian Government, Sir Bryan O'Lugblea and Ms Bichardson, are advocates of one man on« vote, but all are m favour of retrenchment. Wirth Bros, have been ordered to give Lydia Knight the custody of her two boys, who have been performing m their circus.

Regarding the proposal to work the Greta colliery by free labour, the mines will not hear of a redaction of wages, and olaim that too many sinecures make the management expensive. _^