AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 104, 9 March 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By* Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [PER. t/NITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! SYDNEY*, Match 7. ' Sir Henry Parkes has succeeded in forming a new Ministry. . At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to- day, Mr E. J. ' Creighton, of San Frahcis.co, explained his scheme for a fortnightly San Francisco service. The cost of the service would be £80,000 per; annum, of which he anticipated^ the American Government would contribute £40,000, leaving the oolonies to pay the balance. " "Melboueke, March 7. William Harrison, condemned to death for the murder of John Duggan at Elmore, near Bendigo, will be executed on the 18th instant. The sentence of death on four young men, Meredith, Batty, Wren, and, Minogue, tried on the 27th February for a criminal assault on a woman at Studley Park, has been commuted. The first named three will be imprisoned for 12 years with, two floggings, and the last named seven years with one flogging. Fifteen thousand bags of wheat? were sold to-day at 5a 3Jd to 5s 4d. ~1 1 March 8.. A A boat capsized yesterday afternoon in Franklin harbour, .and two men , were drowned, named Pillifent and Ingram. 1 Adbiaidr, March 8 Wheat, has advanced to 5s for shipping parcels but holders show little disposition to sell. : Hobaet, March 7. Arrived— &.M.S. Arawa, from Plymouth, via Teneriffa and the Cape, atnoon, with 51 passengers for' Australia, and 100 for New 'Zealand. The Arawa sails for New Zealand at noon to-morrow (Friday.)