AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 113, 18 March 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Fy Eleotric Telegraph.— Copyright. (I»ER UNITED PKESS ASfeOCIATION.) THTTKBBAY Isl/And, March 15. The rock on which the British India Company's steamer Quetta struck has been discovered half a mile from where the vessel lies. • Melboubnk, Mareli 15. The barley yield of last season exceeds that of the previous year by 676,659 bushels. '. '."'"■' The Melbourne Argus, commenting on: i tbe excess of the exports of New Zealand : states that, althouKh during the depression existing there the producing interest* ■fell in to arrears, and the exports were absorbed, prevented her meetiugr her indebtedness, yet the productiveness of, the Colony has increased to such an .extent as to enable her to. pay off arrears; and it expresses an opmiou that the country that does this out of its own productiveness is essentially prosperous, and with good seasons will hot he long before the profit of production will be shown by increased imports and stirnnff business. Arohdeaem Julius, Bishop-elect of Christchurch, has taken his farewell of his' Ballarat congregation. Bbi> base, March 17. A lunatic, named Chippendale, stabbed and killed a warder at Maryborough Asylum, and then effected his escape.