AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 35, 5 September 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright I PK R U N ITED PltESs' ASSC/C IAT ION. ! Sydney, September 3 Further search m the Glebe pit has resulted in finding the body of the man ! Hudson. It was discovered entombed m a small apartment, and from the beaten track it was apparent that the poor fellow had paced up and down until Btarved to death. The bodies of Beaumont, Grant, and Meadows are visible, and. it- is. believed they died in a . similar manner to Hudson. Nothing is officially known here with regard to the alleged peril in which the Jubilee was placed in Cook Straits on Captain Hansby's last trip. The Calliope has been re- commissioned and the vessel ordered home. . She leaves in a fortnight. Cardinal Moran explains that Insurance Companies are merely approved for the purpose of insuring church properties. He admits interdicting societies because -their funeral rites clashed with those of the Catholic Church. „ ;. : . ;; Perth, September 4. The Legislative Council -has 1 expressed its appreciation .of the "hearty sympathy of the colonies with Western Australia in : its desire for self government; ''^ ■•' ■■:•'•■' Melbourne; September 4>i ";' ' : '\ The most extensive floods eyerknown are raging at ; Numurkat.Y %ileß*. of couutry are inundated, and there has . been great loss of stock. .. V, Hobart, September 4. - ..■■ The Eimutaka arrived at 9 o'clock last night, and sails :for : New Zealand at 11 this morning. She. brings :37 passengers for Australia and 100 for New Zealand. ;