AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 112, 21 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PUB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.! Sydney, April 19. The top story of Pyke's large furniture warehouse, in Vitt-street, was completely gutted by fire this morning, and damage was sustained to the extent of L3OU). The New Zealand Company had a risk of £500 on the building. Warnambool potatoes are dull at 50s. New Zealand potatoes, 60s; onions, 655 ; maize, 2s 44 to 2s Sd. Oats are quoted at 2s 4d. Tbe market is bare and prices must decline ou account of the low price ruling for maize. Bran is firm at 8d to B£d. Pollard is firm at 9d. Chick wheat, 2s sd. Cheese. 4d ; loaf size, od. Local butter has advanced to Is 3d, but the advance is only temporary; imported butter, 9d to lOd. Bacon, 9d to9^d ; New Zealand hams, Is ld, Sailed— Janet Nisoll, for Timaru, and surveying ship Egeria, for Auckland ; vVaihora. for Auckland. The Government intend to introduce a Bill providing for the payment of coroners'juries, and to give coroners discrete iouary power io empanelling juries of five, six, nine, or twelve, Melbourne, April 19. There was a very narrow escape of asenons col ision between the new P. and O. bteamer Oceaas and the Bteamer Casino in the Bay early this morning. Particulars have not been allowed to transpire, but it is known that a panic was occasioned, and that the passengers rushed on deck in their nightdresses. Some of the passengers aver that the vessels aotually struck eaon other. Volger, a bookmaker, who was forcibly ejected from the course at the last meeting has recovered £25 dameges and costs against tne Victorian Amateur Turf Club. He claimed LSOO damages, ihe judge in awarding damages, said that the Club had no power to eject the plaintiff, who refused to abstain from betting, j and was thereupon ejected by force. Brisbane, April 19. Rabbits are spreading with great rapidity in the interior, and are now SO miles north of the furthest point preyiously reached by them.