AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 111, 19 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

— — ■» By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright f PEB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION..! Sydney, April 17. A shipment of horses by the Waihora, from Auckland, was submitted to auction to-day. Light horses averaged L 25, and draught horses Ll6. The market was dead, and many of Cue uorsea were passed in. A hundred and sixty miners are idle through the strike at the South Waratab coal mines. The Babbit Conference to-daj resolved to ask the Government to set apart an island off the -toast and also a tract of country inland, for the purpose of testing the efficieacy of the rabbit ex» termination schemes of M. Pasteur and others. A valuable discovery of lead crystals it reported from the ftludgee district. The crystals are found on the surface, and some of the specimens give thirty ounces of silver to the ton, Adelaide, April 17. Bishop Kennion, at present in England has receired a legacy of £10,000 by the death of an uncle. Over a thousand tons of silver and lead bullion are awaiting shipment to England. Melboubne, April 17. In view of the promised revision of the tariff during the ensuing session, the various industries are agitating for increased Protective duties. The Executive has authorised the Agent-General to purchase war material for the Colony to the amount of £96,000 BbibbaNK, April 17. The victims of the Mount Merlin tra« gedy, reported yesterday, were first poisoned, ami then buried. In addition to the cases reported, another bhiclc woman was killed, making five deaths in all.