AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 96, 6 February 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

•' .'■■--'•' -♦-— : — - — By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. | Jl'Jill UNITED IMtKSK ASSOCIATION.! J Sydney, February 4A tn*n named Musters to-day stuck up the Bank of New South Wales at Wel- • iington. The teller grappled with the robber and secured his revovler. The man then bolted, but being, hotly pursued, and .seeing httle chance of escape from arrest, commit teed suicide. " . . . Steamer's which are arriving m port are much overdue, and report experiencing terrible weather along the coast. It is reported t hat a vessel,; whose uam? is uiiknuwu, has beeu wrecked at Smoky Jape.. Apkiaide, February 4. The ship Cambrian Princess, Captain Evans, 1350 tons, from Melbourne, is ashore at Wallaroo, and it is feared will become a total wreck. $ BLBorfiNR, February 4. A scare occurred m the.mining market yesterday, almost amounting to a panic. Broken Hill Proprietary shares fell to L 74, but afterwards recovered . to L7B. The cause i» supposed to be the fact that the output last week fell below the aver-age,-but there is nothing else known to warraut alarm. : Intense heat still prevails. An actuarial investigation into the affairs of the Premier Permanent Building Association, which recently closed its doors, reveals an extraordinary state of affairs. During three years loans amounting to a million arid a h*lf were issued. As examples of the loose way in which advances were granted, it is stated that one person borrowed LIOO.OOO, though be was already responsible for five previous loans amounting to LoO.OOvj. Not one of them was paid*