AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 25, 9 August 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. |PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, August 7. Advices have been received from Hong Cong to the effect that the Chinese who were refused a landing here, aud who were sent back b.v the Changsha, upon their arrival at Hong Kong demanded from the agents for the steamer a return of their passage money. This demand the agents refused to accede to, and a disturbance, necessitating the interference of the police, ensued. News to hand per British India steamer gives the details of a terrible fatality on board the steamer Clan Mclntosh during the voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta. It appears that noxious gas was generated among the cargo in the hold, and the chief officer and three n t vc seamen lost their lives in the attempt made to disperse the gas. Thirteen other members of the crew were prostrated before the holJ was cleared of the gas, but they re» covered in a few days. The Government do not intend to place a vote on the Estimates for the represen (ation of the colony at the Paris Exhibition, The Irish Club have decided to raise a fund toward defraying the cost of the defence of AJr Purnell in the inquiry as to the charge* of The Times against hi n" A private letter received fr- m London announces tae death of Captain Beal, pioneer of the old Pan-ims line of stea» iners running to New Zealand. It is understood that tlie agents of the Mnil steamer Ze&landia have obtained a sufficient quantity of coal to supply that vessel on arrival here. BbisbaNE, August 7. It is reported that a rich silver field has been discovered at Hamilton, five miles souih-east of Mount Morgan. Two men committed a brutal outrage on a young worn a a at Jooloongabba yes* terday. No arrests have yet been madePpbth, August 8. Jams, the bushranger, has been cap* tured near Freemautle, where it is supposed he was engaged bushrangiug. He a 1 tempted to fire on the arresting con* stable, but the latter was too quick, and in the self defence fired, wounding Jarvis in the shoulder, but not seriously.