AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 128, 4 May 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. i (PER UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION. I | Sydney, Mayl. A man named Hibblo was to-day sen- ! tenced to twelve months' imprisonment on a charge of bigamy. Hibble was reI c»ntly married to Mrs Corston, of Auckland. ' There is a good demand both in Sydney | at.d Adelaide for New Zealand seed wheat < Values, however, have not changed since | previous quotations. | Brisbane, May 2. I A teamster named Bell has surrended himself to the police, and has confessed to the murder of a man named Sidewell at Amoro Creek. His aoomplice, a man ' named Scott, has so been arrested. Captain Emerson and two seamen b« longing to the steamer Lark were drowned at Cairns by the capsizing of a boat. Melbouenb, May 2. Statistical authorities have not quite made up their minds as to whether the surplus wheat available for export has already left the Colony or not. Millers decline to pay the prices now asked and many mills are consequently working short time. The Age considers the balance of the new crop left on hand must be merely nominal, not more than 1700 tons, but a considerable quantity of old wheat having been brought forward, there is a little danger of an absolute scarcity. On the other hand, the Argus estimates that there are 26,000 tons available for shipment. Hobabt, May 3. The Coptic arrived late last night, and sailed at 10 this morning for New Zealand. She brings 55 passengers for Australia and 58 for New Zealand. :