TOWN EDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 146, 10 July 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

iHANLAN AND KEMP TO ROW | AGAIN. SYDNEY HERALD ON NEW ZEALAND. FJCH GOLD FIND AT KIMBERj LEY. i i MURDERS BY THE BLACKS AT NEW GUINEA. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. J PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] Sydney, This Day. Hanlan and Kemp have arranged to ■ row their next match for the championi ship of the world on September 28. i It is expected a batch of cables will . reach Thursday Island by the British j India Company's steamer Warronga on : Friday or Saturday. The Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on the last New Zealand loan, remarks that the confidence of British investors in the colonies has been subject, in the case of New ZeaUnd, to a severe test. Borrowing to pay off debt cannot always be regarded as a satisfactory way of reducing obligations and the issue of Treasury bills, pending an engagement not to go on the market for three years, is an indication of great monetary pressure and inconsistency. The captain of the ship Killochan reports his vessel was partially dismasted on June 6th, and completely so on the I lth. McLean, an apprentice, who was aloft, was earned overboard and killed by the floating wreckage. Perth, This Day. A fifty pound stone from the Jubilee reef at Kimberley has been tested here and yielded eight pounds of gold. Brisbane, This Day. The New Guinea blacks have massacred six inhabitants of Bioua and kid napped three children. Subsequently the Commissioner governing the island, succeeded in arresting and punishing the natives guilty of the outrage. The children were rescued. Hobaet, This Day. The NZ. Shipping Co.'s Rimutaka entered the rirer at 7 o'clock this morning. Westport, This Day. The Suva is now lying on the beach. She will probably be launched in fine weather. She has sustained no damage.