AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 10 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By^Eleofcrio TeiegrapL.-rCopyrigit . [VERiUSITED >VRWa ASfIOOIATION. 1 : ,:•■..:;; jii Adelaide. January 7. ;■ ; The Jubilee Exhibition closed to-day. The attendance during .the, time it. had i; been dpeiied amounted to seven hundred ! iand fifty-three' thousand, pounds, and, the ri receipts to ' which' : is ) fire thousand pounds beyond ' the ' amount estimated' to be taken. Owing ; to the general success of the Exhibition, I it v. not expected, that the guarantors will ,j be called on. .. , . ■ A splendid wneat yield is reported from '. all parts of the colony, and millers are 1 giving four shillihgß per bushel. The barque ' Saturn, while lying rathe i Bay to-day ; was burnt, and her cargo con- \ sieting of 6000 bags of wheat, was de* i* stroked. ; The vessel la insured in the South British office, but they. are partly reinsured.' ' . . ! • Stdket, January 7. The action taken' by the police in de- ' stroying all' stray dogs in c< Asbquence of := the increase or hydivphobia in Eu<».ie • has caused many complaints to be made, '< iajid the aujthonties. have jiow issued ih- ) structionß puttiug a stop to the wholesale destruction;; V, ■.:',''>'.:■ u'^'i ':■■ '■- ::; j • Hanjau challenged Searie, the winner l i of the sculling race at the. Graf ton EcI 'gatta. to row a match over a two mile ( course, and was willing to cpnoede a start of four lengths^ but Searie declined. ,- I f-i \ i\ /- 3 T JSfsW'CAstLB, January 7. .!• ;• -'' A panic in the Theatre la*t mßht wa« , cauiied by one of the a'udienee ■ j>: tetne a Righted cigar; in his' pocked, wii eh eonitained : loose powder, result was a> slight .explosion, and < then ' ay stamped** waa made by the audience,, which lasted twenty minuter . > >: « ' . ! ! Mki*BOUBKE, January 9. i Two;larjsebußh fires hae occurred in < !the Mount Gambier' idistnct, and Lat e ■'- caused ' widespread destruction . Crops, < [. sheds.; implements and over 10,000 sheep hare been burn»d. > ;