AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 21 May 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ABy Electric Teiegraph.r-Copynght. fSEVTBB'B TELEGBAMS. I " Melboubne, May 19. : The Wairarapa arrived this njorning. The BOard -of -En^uir^Air connection With the Windsor railway accident de** • bided tliatat was caused by the 'mistake ' Of the bpy.:Blaokburn,:who was in charge . of the signals at. Prahran, in allowing *' the express to pass when he had not rof' (feivtd nbticfr tha,t tjie line w's clear from Windsor. TnWmucliv'howeverras the boy is only a probationer," the board did not feel justified in holding feiitn responsible and placed the primary responsibility upon jpM_ (Sedges :at Prahrim.^ -~ ' xv * ' u " y ** \ The inquest on the 1 bodies of those killed: at Uhe Windsor railway accident;' ; was reinmedtadayrwheuthe |ury visited the iceue ; qf thp disaster, and the signal system on the railways was jexplained to them. " ".7. A'7 -A "\ A large meeting was held in ' the Town Hall toohight irt liufcport of Lady Loch's proposed, that a Jubilee fund be formed for the purpose i'relipyihg iwo-ien in distress in the colony; -- \ A StDNit, May 20. I Two^smalhr schoonew~-oamayinto og.U IJMdn K kt^t_» Herfds 'lisf in%hf VMle being towed to sea. One is known to have. «unk»; the-' malte „ jjeing,-, drowned, Nothing.hns since, been a ieett.or^heard.of the other^cho^her,! k , : !. -- „. ; i The f^gislati ye Assembly was engaged all night in'di?enfsing'the ef new rules for' the'' enforcement of the cloture* The House* was> sitting during the night, but adiourned from to»day to th«3lsf infant. Thii: was .cfttvijed de* spite the opposite of thejGor eminent. An a^rrmunious debatu.alao took- jjl?ce; On the* Kub|eet bf certain' correspondlilce* which had passed bet'weeu the Premier and Mf-Fdiler,- Attofney»General, wb'os** resignation -was announced yesterday. The tone pfdthe discussion was gene rail j averse to Mr Foster,, : 'A jLa'er. j The second schooner whioh was in coh lision, .at.Jthe .Heads, l^st night is. not, Beridukly injured. cShe proceeded on her r voyage to -Newcastle where she arrived this morning. „ „.,..-. j .<:■._ /.fc__L.'-' - - ' ■■AA.-r.y.ryf: