AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 123, 17 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright [*B& UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION, j - , Bbisbane, May 15, Terrible weather has been experienced on the Northern coast. At . Marble Island; where a number of men are employed, the weather is so boisterous that the men are reduced to the verge of starvation, it being impossible to convey supplies to the Island, The cutter Petrel, which has been missing for some time, has been found stranded at Cape Kimberley, near Cairns. It is supposed that the native crew murdered the captain, Auguste Lousia, Frenchman, who was th« only European on board, ran the vessel ashore and then made off. Melbourne, May 15. _ Slavm fights Burke on the 9th of July. Sydney, May 15. The Chinese Sill to be introduced provides against (he influx of Chinese and indemnifies the Government and the Executive for all actions, taken in ; connection with the Chinese since the Ist of May. " ' ... .

The Divorce Extension Bill, which was recently vetoed by the' lmperial Government, was again read a second time this evening by 32 to 18 Mr J. CJNeill, who has charge: of' the measure, said that it had been approved by Jus* tices Darley, Higginbbttiam, \ and Sir J. Hannen, Chief Judge, ojf, the London Divorce Court, and that it was on the same lines as the Bill introduced by Sir Alfred Stephen. ...■.-.■...

The steamer Gaihries has arrived with 163 Chinese. The steamer has been quarantined.