AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 101, 2 March 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. |PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCI ATION. ! Sydney, February 28. Parliament was opened this afternoon. His Excellency, in his speech from the Throne said : In consequence of the dis tress occasioned by the continued drought it was intended to ask for power to relieve farmers by allowing the payments of rents on holdings to be deferred. In the House of Assembly this evening Sir Henry Parkes moved an amendment to the Address-m-Eeply, which the Government have accepted as a want of confidence motion gD An ex-detective, who resides m this city, is in possession of a photograph exactly coinciding with the descriptions of " Jack the Ripper." The original of the photo was for some years a resident m Sj'dney, where he contracted disease, and taking to drink, soon became a monomaniac. He left here for the Old Country, and frequently boasted that if he left the Colony he would kill a hundred women. When leaving Sydney he had in his possession a surgeon's small knife. _ : The epidemic of typhoid is spreading in some districts, and at Balranald Station, 554 miles S.W. of Sydney, one tenth of the hands are prostrated with that disease. Bbisbane, February 28. Private advices received from America state that, in addition to further warships being sent to Samoa, the Twelfth New Jersey Begiment are held in readiness to proceed there, beside the Ninth cavalry and the Twenty-fourth infantry* with their chaplains. The cavalry who take their horses with them, will be armed with long rifles instead of the usual short rifle. Melbourne, February 27 Four young men named Meredith, Batty, Wren, and Minogue have been sentenced to death for a criminal assault on a woman at Studley Park, on the outskirts of the city.