AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 129, 24 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— -Copyright. (fer united press association.) Sydney, April 22. News has reached here that the Iroquois has arrived; safely at Port Townsend, Washington Territory. She was only a few days out wheu her piston broke. Successive gales drove her 2500 miles to" the northward, and her crew suffered great hardships from the intense cold. The damaged- machinery' was temporarily repaired, but her coal was exhausted on February 15. , The crew were put on short rations until her arrival on March 11. It is estimated that tbe floods at Bourke will cost Government alone £100,600. Mbiboubnb, April 23. Government has finally decided that owing to the shortness of tune for collection of exhibits* Victoria will not be represented at the mining exhibition to be held at the Crystal Palace xn July next. Hobabt, April 22.. A case of suspected murder is being investigated here. It appears that a man named Beswick and his child died three weeks ago at Campbell Town, it' being supposed, from eating tinned fish. It has how been ascertained that Mrs Beswick shortly before their death had purchased a quantity of " Rough on Rats," and investigation by the police proves that the child died from arsenic poisoning and the man from some irritant poison. An inquest on the bodies is proceeding.