AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 65, 2 December 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ffiEUTEBS TELEGBAMS.I Albany, November 30. The P. and O. Rome, with 'tbe. out" ward Australian mails, from London, October 29th arrived this mo.-ning. • Sydney, iS'ovember 30. Severe shocks of earthquake were experienced this morning o -rev a large area in the country districts, when ihe walls of houses were cracked and ceilings fell in. Sydney, December 1. Messrs Burns, Phillips, and Co., agents for the British India Steam Navigation Company, have made an offer for the purchase of the entire fleet and tbe wharves of tbe A.S.N. Company. It is stated thatthe am«unfcoff_red is£'l,oooooo An inquest was held to-day on the body of Fred. Bereudt, who died from the effects of eating sandwiches which had been poisoned for the purpose of killing rata. An open verdict was re* turned. Melbourne, December 1. In tbe Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr Gillies announced that an International Exhibition will be held in Aielliourne in 1888. The men who stuck up the National Bank of Australasia at Albert Park have been committed for trial, bail being re* fused. Adelaide. December 1. Tbe washing at I eetulpa has not given very favourable results. The diggers refuse to give any information as to their earnings, but private advices report that v<-ry rich yields are berag obtained. Reports of the South Australian wheat crop are very favourable, and an in« creased estimate is formpd of tbe yield.