AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright rBEDTER'B TRLR<?RA.X3 I Stdnbt, November 30. Instructions have been received by the the High Commissioner for New Guinea to proclaim British sovereignty over that territory. It is understood that the appointment of a Governor -will he made very shortly. . A- case of supposed wholesale poisoning is reported from Albury distnct. A dispute having arisen at Mann's station, Tumberumba, between the Union -and non-union shearers, a number of the latter were seized with sudden illnesß. Over a dozen are now lying in a very crictical state, though expected to recover. It is believed that arsenic has been placed in th» water to poison the men. Mkmoubnb, November 30; The Government are m receipt of a letter from M. Pasteur, the celebrated inoculist, in which that gentleman recommends the authorities throughout Australia to extirpate rabits by infecting them with an epidemic similar to chicken cholera by sprinkling around the burrows a liquid full of microbes. Pebth, November 30. A prospector who has been out with a party came in to-day with extremely rich specimens, which, he avers, were taken from a gold-bearing reef discovered by the party upward of two hundred miles from this town.. The report upon the prospectors' specimens is highly encouraging.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 70, 1 December 1887, Page 2
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