AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electrio Telegraph.— Copyright |"FEB UNITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION. j Sydney, May 10. A large number of forged £5 notes on the Australian Joint Stock .Bank &fe in circulation m the city. A man named McGregor has been arrested on the charge of forging and uttering them. The notes are marvels of penmanship. A woman Hamed Park, who is said to have been of unsound rmr.d, threw herself in front of an approaching engine on the Southern Line of railway to-day, and was literally cut to pieces. The apparent dropping of the silver boom has caused an increased amount of interest in good shares, and a boom in this stock is anticipated. Mr Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, has sent a cable to M Pasteur asking the terms on which his representative would be permitted to instruct the authorities here as to the cultivation of the virus of the Cumberland disease. It is estimated that it' the virud is successful, some 300,000 sheep, which die annually from the disease, could be sared. May 11. The mutineers of the ship Thunderbolt have been, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The crew, in, their cvi* dence, alleged that they had been' subject to gross cruelty at the hands of the cap tain. Beisbane, May 10. . Six hundred ot the Chinese on the Groydon goldiields have armed themselves in order to resist ejectment. Melbourne, May 10. It is estimated thai the sum of L 228.000 will have been expended on the Melbourne Exhibition before the day of opening. Mr Irving, of San Francisco, hns written to the Government stating thai he has discovered a method of exterminating rabbits hj means of inoculation. May 11, The body of a man named Bright well has been found on the Sandhurst railway hue with the head cut off and otherwise mutilated.