AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 80, 4 February 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electrio Telegraph.—-Copyright lVt!B. XTNITEb PHEBS ASSOCIATION. ] SrDSBT, February 2. !Obitnary— Lady Parkes, wife of Sir Henry Parkes, aßtat 74. - Fplejt and Burke are arranging a fight to! the (finish vWr^inbtoless (thrarf LSOO aMaize has declined and is now worth 3s 9^, with the prospect of a further Ac* cjine ; market dull. Potatoes, L 3 to L 3 10<-.per ton ; onions, easier, market dull, L 2 15s to L 3; other lines are) nn» changed J ...... - ; ' , . I Cardinal Moran has replied to the allegations of Dr Thornton, Bishop, of Ballarat, relative to the part played by the Boman Catholics in the Centenary celebrations. His Eminence states that -the Catholic party were hot dominant; and he purposely restricted the number of | those present,' at the public' fanction tQ three, though , a great number of prelates were in Sydney for special Catholic services. •_' ' : '; ; ';" "■_■_'■ ' : ;' :'_"_[ '; li oombined AastraUan team which plays against Lilly white's , team tomorrow; only includes " Mc^iiane ' and Worrall outside 6jE jVew B«uth Wales players. ■ :; " - ; ': . .• ../ • ';; [Mt Thomas Garrett, Minister for LandK, ! in replying, to the resolution pa's»ed by the Stock Board delegates on the rabbit qaestibn, said the Government could not see their way to adopt M. P4steur'B dubious remedy. The Gov» ernment, policy was to encourage land holders to combat the , scourge, particularly by means of fencing, which be found during, a rist to New Zealand to be a most efficacioQd prerentire there. ;.'. AdblaiDe, Februnry 2. There has been a considerable exodus, principally of farmers, to Horth-West Victoria, , Bad reports on agricultural have been received from the northern district of York Penipßnlai : ' , ..