AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 33, 31 August 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I PER UNITED PRESS ASSf-CI ATION. ! Sydney, August 29. At the inquest on the hody of William Kennedy, manager of the Equitable Insurance Company, who was found dead on the beach in the harbour, a verdict of alcoholic poisoning was returned. August 30 The annual report of the Benevolent Asylum discloses a shocking Btate of immorality. It shows that over seven hundred illegitimate births are registered annually, and last year forty-four children were abandoned. Replying to a question in the House of Assembly, Sir Henry Parkes said Government were not in possession of any information respecting the French action in the New Hebrides. He said Government must decline to make any representation to the Imperial Government on the matter unless they received substantial evidence as to what was taking place. Government haye decided to establish an agricultural department wi'h >ut delay. Brisbane, August 30 In the Parliamentary rifle match the Queensland team made 520, The Hon. Andrew Joseph Thynne, Minister of Justice, was the highest scorer with 87. The wharf laborers here hare cabled a sum of £150 in aid of the London dockmen. ■ Adelaide, August 3U. Dr Kennion, Bishop of Adelaide, intimates that it is probable a protest will be forwarded to the Archbishop of Cunter* bury opposing the consecration of the Eev. W. Saumeritz Smith as primate at Australia. Melbourne, August 30. Government have intimated to the proprietors of the Sunday newspaper that proceedings will be instituted against theai if the paper is published. Newcastle, August 30. The steamer Lawrence, recently purchased for the Mohikinm coal trade, sailed for Wellington last night.