AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 3 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW GUINEA DISCOVERIES. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. VICTORIAN REVENUE. By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright [per united pbess association.! Sydney, January. 2. At the Grafton Regatta to-day the sculling race resulted as follows : — Searle, 1 ; Nelson, 2 j Hearn, 3. Hanlan did not row. Mr Beaven, who has recently returned from exploring New Guinea, found a system of deep inland' waterways well connected with the ocean and navigable for a hundred miles, Mr Bevan has postponed his return to New Guinea for two months. A boat capsized on the Hawkeshury River yesterday, and one of the occupants, a young lady named Miss Crockroft, was drowned, despite the desperate attempts made by Charles Coleman, her fiancee to save her. Coleman reached the shore m an exhausted condition. By the explosion of a lamp during a cirous performance at Grafton, a panic ensued, many of the audience fainting. The company succeeded in subduing the fire and pacifying the audience before anyone was seriously injured. December 31. The Government oppose the proposal to exterminate rabbits bj inoculating the animals with a virulent disease, and will take steps to impose heavy penalties on anyone introducing rabbita so inoculated to the Colony. Melbourne, January 2. Entries for the Centennial Exhibition have closed, with the exception of those from French exhibitors, to whom an extension of time was granted. The total amount of space applied for will be announced during the week. The Victorian | Court will comprise 15,000 exhibits, exclusive of wool and wine exhibits. The revenue for the year is £7,054,000,. being an increase of £393,000. The principal increases are: Customs, £105,000 territorial revenue, £7000 ; public works, £-212,000; stamps, £59,000 ; miscellaneous, £10,000. The excise duties decreased by £5000.