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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 91, 19 January 1888, Page 2

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; ; NEW GUINEA AFFAIRS. THE MELBOURNE fiXHIBI MOtf. THE CROFTERS IN LEWIS. ; A TERRIBLE Ttf&NADO. . By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKR VJXJTBD PBEBB ASSOOIAtIOir.) London, January 17. The Colonial Office authorities are drafting an Order in Council proclaiming a sovereignty over British territory in New Guinea. The Hon W. MacCJregor, C.M.G., of Fiji, will shortly replace Mr John Douglas, C.M.G., the special Commissioner over New Guinea; , Tenders for the Auckland municipal 6 per cent loan of £15,000 were opened to-day. The amount subscribed Was £160,000. Tenders at £104^ will receive 30 per cent. The minimum was fixed at £102 - Copper has recovered £2. Australian is quoted at £76. The Continental complications|hav» affected Stock Exchange prices which I art now generally depressed. The maximum of the Auckland municipal loan was £ 1 04 1 5s. New Zealand 2 per cents, £103 ; inscribed stock, £99. ■ - It is rumoured that Lord CharlM Beresford's reason for again sending in his resignation as Lord of the Admiralty is that his scheme of Navy reorganisation has been rejected by the Admiralty. The Company to take over Bass' brewery has been floated with a capital of two and three-quarter millions sterling . . ■;.:;; BeSliij, January 17. Lecivlation of a severe character dealing with Socialism it to be submitted to the Reichstag ■ Janaary 16. , • The Negus does not wish to attack the Italians till after the hot season has 1 passed, but Ras Aloula, Abyssinian general; has declared that his rank* are being decimated by famine ; and sickne«v and. that if nuccess is ta be attained im* mediate hostilitie» must be commenced. WASKiiroTUN, Jaauary 17.5 ; - Congress has voted 50,000d0U for the representation of the States at the Melbourne Exhibition. . . . . ; , „ Glasgow, January 17. v A force of, polios attempted ,,to effect the arrest of a number of crofters e»gaged in the recent disturbances at Lewis, but the crofters, assembling in force, succeeded in routing them. Edinbuboh, .laauary 17. A number of crofters arrested at Lewis for deer-raiding have been tried in this city, and were acquitted by the San Fbancisco. January 17. A destructive " blizzard" has been experienced in the Western States. The damage to property by the gale is heavy, and fully 100 persons. have been killed. ' . Stdnet, January 18. A man whilst attempting to drive in a buggy through some bush at Albury, in which a fire was raging, was overtaken by the flames and perished. Through the death of Mr Frederick J. Gibbea, member for Newtown, another Protectionist fight is imminent. Work at the Newcastle coal mines is struck, and wages are depressed owing to the competition of the southern mines. Two cases of sunstroke occurred here to-day. The weather is very hot and a number of deaths from sunstroke are reported from the country districts. At the sale of Hobartville yearlings the prices realised were moderate, the total being 7060 guineas for a trotter. Further reports from the country state that the bush fires are still blazing. Many farmers in the district are utterly mined through the loss of their crops. The ship J. T. Berry, burned at sea on the 9th instant, was laden with petroleum, thus accounting for the rapid spread of the flames. It is thought the missing boat may may make for Lord Howe Island, whioh would be a much nearer point than the coast of New Zealand when the vessel was abandoned. Mblboubnk, January 18. Swan^Jkhe pedestrian, attempted to commit suicide to-day by taking poison. He is now in the hospital. The causa of the rash act is attributed to the death of bis sweetheart haying affected his mind. A deputation of grain growers Waited on the Railway Commissioners, asking that, in view of the railways paying well, a reduction of 50 per cent should be made on the present rates for carriage of grain, as under the existing circumstances it was impossible to grow wheat at a profit. Mr Speight, Chief Commissioner, in reply, said the rates for carrying agricultural produce were lower in the colonies that in America, and the Commissioners did not' feel justified in grants ing the concesnon^sked. The .deputation is dissatisfied with the resuli-of the interview, and will appeal to the Goverment. Adrlaidk, January 18. The codlin moth is making tad ravages among the pears and apples.