AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 25 February 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, February 23. A scrutiny, demanded by tbe defeated Freetrade candidate in the recent Paddington election, has resulted in the Parliamentary Committee appointed to carry it out more than doubling the silting member's majority. The morniug train for the Sonth ran into a goods train near Granville Junes tion, smashing up nine trucks and the engine and blocking the line for some hours. The fireman was slight'y injured, but there was no other casualties. The Government were defeated last night, the State House Repeal Bill being carried by 40 to 30. The action of the Premier in persevering with his proposal for the erection of a State House is strongly condemned by ail shades of political and public opinion. At a fire in the city last night one fireman was killed aud another had his arm broken in falling down a lift. Adelaide. February 23. A thousand Chinese have been landed in the Colony since the Ist of December last. It is reported that the instigators of the Chinese movement toward the ruby fields will dispute the thousands" mile limit imposed upon the Chinese, and that they wili advise the Chinese to refuse to pay the poll-tax of £10 per head now exacted trom them. Hobaet, February 23. Two ladies died during the voyage of the N-Z.S.S. Company's R.M.S, Rimu** taka, which arrived yesterday from Plymouth. Mblboubb, February 23. Much surprise was occasioned in the city last erening by th« sudden appear-* ance of Mrs White, who it was supposed had eloped with Bearder, the jewel robber, some months ago. Mrs White states that she merely happened to go Home by the same steamer, and that upon arriving in England Bearder saw her safely in the care of her friends , aud she saw no more .f him. As soon as she saw newspaper reports, and learned Bearder' s real character, she determined to return to Melbourne at once and clear herself. A telegram has been received from the Observatory atr : the Kiel University an» nouncing the discovery of a comet on the 18th inst. The comet has since been observed in this colony.