AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 76, 17 December 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

«• By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I I>BR UNITED" PItKSs ASSOCIATION Stdnbt, December 16. Searle wishes all Australian scullers to row for the championship. It is understood that Kemp, Matterson, Stansbury, and McLeau.wili compete. - ' , A scheme to amalgamate the principal steamship owners into an association has been proposed, but. the details "of the pro-' posal have not come under discussion yet. The balance-sheet of the Mount Morgau Company, for the 6ix months ending 30th November, has been published: The profit and loss account "shows that £109,---oli has been spent in management and £525,000 paid in dividends, leaving a balance of £23,573. "With the view of getting O'Connor, and possibly Teemer, to come out to Australia, Mr Deeble, the well known backer of Australian oarsmen, ofters a purse of 200 sovs., with a subscription of 50 sova in addition, for the championship of the world, to be rowed on the Parramatta Biver. Seven entries are expected Matterson has ' accepted McLean's challenge to row him for £200 a-side. A conference of engineers and steamship owners.has been arranged, with a view of settling the differences between them. A tragedy occurred at Quirindi, in the Northern District. A young man named Montgomery shot Miss Church dead, and then committed suicide. The cause was jealousy. Montgomery also intended to kill several men who were paying attentions to the Igirl, but was unable to find them.