AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 97, 8 February 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. I I'EH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. • Sydney, February 6At the wool sales 2-189 bales were offered, 2000 bales being sold Bidding was brisk, notwithstanding the unsatisfactory reports from London. Prices were about equal to last week s sales. Inferior to good greasy, TJd to 7£d ; washed 1 2£ dto 14 Jd ; low to good average scoured, Is '3d to Is 6£d. Sir J. Thurston has written to the Wesleyan Conference enclosing some lively and interesting correspondence between himself and the Rev W. Shirley Baker over the Tongau dispute. The schooner Summer Rose,. from New* castle to Tweed, has been wrecked near Yuinber, six of those on board' being drowned. Brisbane, February 6. The ketch Evelyn, laden with explosives, bas been abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. The crew were rescued by a passiug steamer. Tbe Gov eminent have sent a vessel to recover or i destroy tue ketch. Hobart. February 5. The lonic arrived at 3 p.m. yesterday and sails at 8 to-morrow morning for New Zealand. She. brings 41 passengers for Australia and 55 for New Zealand. Melbourne, February 5. The preliminary meeting of the Federt; on Confer once opened at three o'clock this afternoon, and sat for au hour an I a quarter with closed doors, when'" it was decided that the press be admitted to future meetings. Mr D. Gillies, Premier of Victoria, was elected President on the motion of Sir Henry Parkes. -.