AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER JNITED PKKS3 ASSOCIATION. I Ftdnbt, Deopmber 24. Potatoes are brisk. The present quotation is £15. Onions, £13. The weather is generally fine all over the colony. At Kiandra, however, it is stormy, a heavy snowstorm lasting three hours to-day. Five thousand sheep perished in the snow. Melbourne, December 24. An aeronaut named Bartholomew dropped with a parachute from a balloon at an altitude of 4000 ft. The descent was successfully accomplished. Adklude, December 24. Lindsay, the explorer, confirms the statements recently made as to the existence of an active volcano to the north of Lake Amadous. Brisbane, December 25. A Government agent named Armstrong, belonging to the labour recruiting schooner Ariel, was decoyed ashore at Nalayta and cut to pieces by the Natives.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 75, 27 December 1888, Page 2
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