AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 58, 3 November 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WRECK .OF' TH B CHEVIOT. By Electric Telegraph.—- Copyright rBEITTBB's TKLRaBAMS I SrosKT, October 29. AH witnesses -at the inquest agreed hat the .Chen it machinery is m good order, and that nothing coul 1 have saved the vessel. All sp-ak in terms of high prai .-• of Captain Richards >n \h the (•am bier was prowjedin' through the Rip a henry spa washed it child out of its mother'* arms and dashed it to death aginst the buwaiks. • November 2. The Alameda sailed for Auckland today with the homeward Saa Francisco mail. Toagan advices report the death of Mr Symmonds. British Viee«Gon*ul of the Friendly Islands. Hobabt, November 2. Arrived, to-day— 'New Zealand Sbip» ping Company's R.M.S. Ruapehu, from London. Mblbovbnb, November 2. The Farmers' Conference to-day adopted resolutions urging the imposition of 25 per cent, ad valorem duties upon live rtock and dead meat, and the placing of protective duties upon agricultural produce generally from beyond the colony. A collision occurred off WiHiamatown to-day between two steam launches. Three persons werr precipitated, into the water, and one person sustained severe injuries. - Messrs Goldsbrongh and Co. (Limited), held their usual weekly wool sale to-day. There was a crowded attendance of buyers, and the various lots elicited ex« cellent competition, especially light conditioned wools, of good quality, and greasy and superior lambs' wool. The catalogue comprised 3600 bales, of which 2800 were Bold. Superior greasy merino brought as much as llfd per Ib, good ditto 10d, and average quality ditto, 8d ; superior lambs' wool realised 12 Jd; good crossbred, 9}d ; and scoured wools up to