AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 8, 5 July 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By^ v^lectrie. Telegraph.-^ Gopynght. rEBUTEE's'TEiE&3ftiMBri :!l: " ' .\ J Received. July 5; 12 30 p.m. „ . '[ > ' "•■• ■■':' -)Ay StDNE^'This i l)ay.; , -.Arrived-^Taraweraiifrom Auckland; ; ; .There was a dehHe. foglin theharbpr last, night, and two. steamers went ashore near Bradley head, but have . since floated off, neither suffering. serious injury. ■ ' 1 Evidence whiehTnas. been.taken at theltaquest on -the Ha wkesbiify^railway accident tends to show the same was due t© the stoppage of the air pssiaefevbrate. | -• The .Government's- proposals res&rdin^ the celeDration^ of the., centenary nafe^ been approved by '^ ■ v, -BHiBBANE,,ThJB I^ay. ] \ t All efforts te float the '-stei^eV ; Went* 1 worth, which went ashore 'hear'Boweti f n the 17fch ultj, have failed; ' • -'* ! ; i;'^ .; <i ...< .v j-i lyv. '.-:<■' '.'.-.vA — £4—: -■- 'rf^'i i I :;;;;;. o /.-.•■ii:/- iBBJSBAKBiiJuIy.A. : The Queensland revenue returns .'show & anTincrcase'^df £55,11 5 'tn'e-ipas quarter, bufc a - decrease ■ for ' thje year of , £60,5^6; i : ''"i '•'■••^ "i.VJ;!. <; : Jilx-"- - Meibouenb, July 3. ; v Bis understood thai'th'e ra'ilw;ay\com- ' missioriersr i intend 5 ' ifco : ' dismisr Gedgeistati6nnia)ster;! of Prahranj and Ki?athp aud J Laink^driver^amP 'g ! uJß(rd : , J of ,the Windsor train, in connection wuh'th^e recent railway accident. It is also stated that several- departmental changes are contemplated. ; , „ -. i ! J;• ; ; ■ ' StiNET, Julj 2. ; .Smallpox has occurred bere v The BufEerer, a man named Alexander, was one- ', of .the creV of the Gflaslyji^ {wrecked* thVphina'Seas. . He lately arnyedfroip Hongkong, in ifre steamship Poirt Victoy, which carried several passengers, and brought a clean bill. of health.; J3p speqt one night at the Sailors Home nere, the inmates of which are: now aII aaarantme . Alexarider has been , placed" on "board the 1 quarantiiie hulk Far Away, , { ■It is how known that sir- df the Poijt -V ictor I*-•1 * -• passengers-went-to -New— ZeaVt land^by the Wakati^u pnherjast voyage from this port, [t j The assistant manager of the .Electrilc Telegraph 'Depaftnient it ifaissfligr 'ife. is supposed to haye committed suicide. ! ■ ._'•■ .y^ly*. I J A sfeullintera(le r 'took il place tb-dsy/b^-tween-Kemp and Mattersbn, 1 resulting ihi a victbiy; f or Kemp,' who* won as hre him. : Thp < Americaa Consul heldra - , receptiok to-day (^the anniversary of,, the i^lwalv tion of Independence) j k whicn was attenV ded by many .leading' qitizens,. nqtwithjstaudin'g the ihcleinenc/ 1 of f \ne f r wßaWe4.,