AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 86, 7 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By CElectrio i Telegraph.— Copyright [rBB TOTTED PBBBB ASSOCIATION.! IJBiSBAXB,,Janaarj 5. The Croydbri goldfield, 'discovered Ja few months rso, is developing 'richly, and a large quantity of gold has already been sent down. '• here is -vow a considerable ' ipprulation on the field. • One mine has jreturnfed 126z per' ton from 120" tons of, stone; : ' ! : ' v.' '"' •_-.■■■■'• ■••■•■ ; : Adklaidb. Jantiary «5. H. A. Wood; curator of intestate estates, who l6yanted two years ago r is, it appears, now resident at Corregidor: ,a; -.'city;: of Northern Mexico, whore he has a' fine estate , of one, hundred thousajid acres. Wood married a wealthy Mexican' lady, although his wife is m this city. When be Wanted he eloped with' another' woman, ; It is asserted that influence is being brought to - Ibear to prevent the police pursuing him energetically. j " Melboubne, ■ • January 5. Burke r..as challenged Kilran t© fight for £500. givingthelatterJElooforh»expen6es.ji v:. : : - ••-■■ •!■■■•■■ •. : ■ !! " ; - p , iThe Wharf Jjabourers' Union and the Stevedores' Association are at loggerheads. The former are insisting on being allowed to. discharge steamships, as well as receive cargo on the wharves. The Stevedores' Association have supplied men to do both classes of 'work, and further complications are expected. The cancelled notes which were recently stolen are not being circulated now. The Victorian loan which is about to be placed in the market, is the last instalment of the six millions authorised.' It has been. decided that if Sir Graham Berry desires it, a year's extension of the Agent-Generalship will be granted him. MrD. Gillies, Premier, will probably succeed him, and Mr James Service take the leadership of the party. Sydney, January 5. The revenue returns show that the estimated deficit has been -reduced to £25,000. The Postmaster-General maintains that the mail companies were well aware of the parcels post question when the contract was drawn up. The amount involved is only eight Hundred pounds, He also favours the establishment of a threepenny rate on all direct sea routes, whilst the Pestsinasters-General of theother colonies favour a fourpenny rate. .■■-..