AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UNITED PRESS A?si<Cl ATION. ' I ■ . ' Sydney. January 7. j Shares in the Blook 10 Company Broken Hill, are quoted at £17 10s. Reports have just come to hand from the chief wheat districts that the crops are suffering very materially from the ravages of rust. The inquest on those killed by the collapso of the old Volunteer Artillery Hotel on Friday last commenced to-day, when the jury found that the City Corporation were guilty of great negligence. The Coroner intimated to the. jury that the, verdict was tantamount to one of manslaughter but the jury declined to alter | the Verdict. . January 8. The Stock Department will not allow the foxes on board the Zealandia to be landed unless they are sent to Zoological Gardens. Melbourne, January 7. Buxtons six-story stationers' repository has been destroyed by fire. The firemen gallantly rescued the caretaker from the top story The damage is estimated at £11,000. The following New Zealand offices are interested in the the fire at Messrs Levy's -National, £1000; Colonial, £500; Union, £1000. . Pkbth, January 7. By a boat accident yesterday, four men named Tuekey, Evana (2), and Woodhouse, lost their lives. '
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 84, 9 January 1890, Page 2
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