AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 94, 26 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'By Electric Telegraph.r-Copyright [PER TOOTED PBEBB ASSOCIATION*"] Sydney* January 24. The ceremony, of unveiling ihe staine of: H?r Majesty the- Queen,' Which «us made -by J, E. 1 fiot'hm, E Aii was pjr^ 1 formed by Lady CJarrinsion'tpsday in •>li« presence of «n inimeise crowd of &p'eeta» tors. ■ The (governor of ih© sevt-rai colonies were present, ami brisf speeches were delJTercd .by Lord Carrington uad : 3ir Henry Parkes. .- : .;i •' A statement has heeo published that t]ie Gerbian New Guinea Compajciy has already paid a dividend, butit is ridiculed. The press generally condemns the Burke *Fo!ey exhibition. Mr D. Smj son, formerly Harbor Engineer of JDunV'iiin, was picked up in an unconscious state in Pitt>i>tre»t las;' bight;' and dit-d shortly after being admit led to the Hospital. The Broken Hili South Siivermirie Comphny have mtensiii<d the minine excitement by' the.ir having' tapped the great lbde. Share* which had formerly . been quoted i>t 24s have risen in Talue/o L2O, tlius adding at one stroke a miliiou and a half to the value of the mire. . Jauuarj 24. The Aj^e adTocates. in the interest of farmers, im additional import duty on fai stoflk imporled in(6 y.ctoria.. . The dcclaratinn of weights for the Australian Cup hate been postponed . for 1 a week/' ,"' : " -:'■ '" '._,'_' ' •". . ' ..■ '. I ■ "■: . f Bb/hiasb, January 24. j A rise in quotations for sugar is ex» pected 'befpre the e;id of the month. , ... A dbctor who h«d been sent for to attend patients at Eoxburgh Downs' Sta» t ion died of thirst on the > way, and the mesgeneer who accompanied only him saved himßxlf by drinking his horse's blood. _'■