AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 108, 12 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

: By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyrigh [>BB UNITKD PBESS ASSOCIATION."! Meiboubnb, April 10. Four Chinamen stuck up and murder . ouslj assaulted another on the high roa< near Shepperton to day. Sticks am , tomahawks were freely used by th . assailants. The express from Sydney to»day rai into and smashed sereral tracks a , Wodonga. The engine was disabled I It is alleged that the driver disregardei : the danger signals at the station. ; The Victoria Racing Club hare de , cided to increase the amount of priz , money at their race meetings next seasoi bj£3lsO. Stdnit, April 11. , The Government hare decided to re , strict foreign warships from coming tr the harbor. They will be compelled fo [ the future to remain st the qn«rantin< , ground, near the Head*, The quarantin* , station will probably be removed t< , Broken Bay. M. Loir, the representative of M. Pas teuf, has written to the Governmen asking permission to introduce miorobei into the colony for the purpose of extir , minating rabbits. At present M. Loii and the two doctors who accompanied '. him from Paris, are on a risit to tbi Tulee district, and are making tnrestiga* tions as to the habits of the rabbits. The Eight Eer. Dr Berry, Primate ol Australia and Tasmania, in an address t< the Synod, defended the Church from the imputation of using backstairs im fluence against the Divorce Bill, and saic that whaterer steps the Church had taker in opposition to the Bill had been openli and by petition. He characterised th< omission to say grace at tb« Centennial banquet a graVe error. John Grace, who was conrioted on t charge of murdering John Stapleton, i miner, near Arundale last February, hat been sentenced to death.