AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 30, 21 August 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

r By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright T | PER UNITED PRESS ASS<«C I ATION. I 8 Mklbouhne, August 19. 8 Tbe "Railway Department have bcei * promised an unlimited supply of ooa '<• from Tasmania. The threatened strik< has caused New Zealand coal to adr mo 15s per ton. The Exhibition is now fairly advancer towards completion- The attendance oi a Saturday numbered 24,000. Brisbane, August 20. 0 A Frenchman named Duhaniel mar c dered Mrs Uiley, his paramour, nea c Croydon, almost cutting her head p] n with a raZ'>r. Tlie murderer then swal c lowed strychnine, but he tw>k too mucl and the overdose acted as «n emetic^' H r was arrested immediately. Jealousy l ?, assigned as the cause. d Hobabt, August 20. A resolution has been carried imposin a tax of a half penny per pound on lam owned by Absentees, but it is not regardei " as likely to be passed. ? Sydney, August 19. A crisis is imminent at Brook on jj staf ioi owing to the difficulty among tbe shear ers. A night attack is expected, and i is feared that the result will end in blond shed. The besieging force number 30C 6 while the defending force is compara tively small. No trace has been discovered of thi • escaped prisoner Gasparini. The French 3 Consul has expressed the opinion tha '> insufficient care was taken of Gusparim who was allowed the freedom of the ship 8 He doubts the suicide theory, but think: ° it more likely that be has been carefall] '» secreted by friends made aboard th< '» vessel.