AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 13, 13 July 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[bBUTBBS TELTGBAMB.I SYDXBy July 11. The Legislative Assembly continued in committee on the Customs Bill until an early hoar this morning. Late last nighi a compromise was declined, and afrer entering a protest against the ffon*e sitting on Sunday, the Opposition left tbe Chamber in a body nt midnight. The Government then proceeded with the Bill, and after passing the clauses, postponed the discussion of the schedule, and the Assembly adjourned until Tuesday. At the conclusion of the praeeeding* the strangers in the gallery groaned. Later. The proceedings in the Legislative Assembly are commented upon, by the Preiis generally in terms ef great condemnation, the scene* in the Chamber during the recent sitting beingcharacterised dikoVderly bey«nd description. Tlie sitting ffcsted fifty-six and a h-lf hours. Lady Stephen, wife of Sir Alfred'iStep- • hen, Lieutenant «Goyernor of New South Wales, died today. Gisbobnb, July 13 Mr Weaver, mine manager of the Petroleum works, reports that the third sand was struck at 1 140 feet. The drill bored one foot into this sand, when a good show of oil was found, and a plug j Was then inserted according to instructions from Sydney.