AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 124, 12 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i -• : . ' By EJectric Telegraph.— Copy right . (PER; UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) | ' "-'A, Stdnby/ April 10. v Lubeok, from Samoa. All is a.uiet in the. lslands, and busiriess ttwli. ■ The.' protracted voyage of I the Am«rican warship Iroquois, four months out, from Honolulu, as causing- anxiety . . • An ! important' salt deposit, said to equal that at Nanturch, in Oheshire, has beeii discovered at Turflberumbi..' - The Sydney Morning Herald considers that O'Connor's , claims to the sculling championship' is aWurd; and adds that as Searl^ won it from Kemp; the honour reverts to the latter on the' decease of Searle.---1 '■■■'.- Melboubnb, April lb. The epidemic of " La Grippe" is spreading. Seyerai members of the Ministry have been attacked by the disease and at Port Melbourne a 0880 has proved fatal, the victim succumbing after an illness of 'three days. .. : A slight panic occurred in the city through l telephone wires coming in contact with the wires used for electric, lighting purposes' and thus cauWrig several incipient fires. Government having been approached on the subject they have stated their intention to'introduce a Bill for effectually supervising, overhead wires. ■ . Brisbane, April 11. The inquiry into the cjioumstances conueoted with the wreok of the^Quetta is practically concluded though the evidence from witnesses resident st Thursday Island is being awaited. The Chairman of the Benph stated that there was nothing to prevent the Captain of theill-fated vessel' proceeding Home, adding that there was nothing in the evidence to sustain any allegations of neglect on the part of the, officers ; of . the vessel or the .pilot* | ■ '-'■'''"''- '•*■'•■.' - v ;I