AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 67, 7 December 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.! fBEUTEBS TISLEGBAMS.J Received, December 7. 1.10 p.m. Sydney, December 7. The Corungamits passengers numbering 54 saloon, and 38 steerage havejarrived here. Latest reports from Jervois Bly state tha vessel is in a critical position. Biusbane, liis Day. The Government lias received a telegram from the Agent General in London stating the Secretary for the Colonies ha:intimated the|lmperinl Government deem it necessary that British Sovereignly be proclaimed over New Guinea. Mklb jukne, December 4. Negotiations between the Government and the Telephone Exchange Company relative to the pureliise of the Company.--business by the Government, hay; nuw been broken off, and th« Post muster* General has tinuouncetl that 'ho G >vern» ment will establish a separate Telephone Exchange. The Trades and Luhmir Council has rejected, by a lar<>e mij>rity, a motion proposed by its secretary approving of the Exhibition be ng held in 1888The ' 'nptnin of t'te ship Gainsborough lias been arrested for iliroirin^ his chilli overboard while at sea. His wife has nlse been arrested as nn assessory, be cause she knew her hu^liand was vonjinj on insanity at the time her child wa--drowned. Sydnky, December 6. The steamer Corang.unite, while ou her voyage from this port to Melbourne, ran ashore at Jeryis Bay, whore she now lies, making a great den lof water. The crow and passengers have already left hvr. several of them proceeding to Ulladulla.