AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 143, 27 May 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER UNITED PIIKSS ASSOCIATION.) Stdnet, May 24 As a result of the trouble which recently occurred pn board H.M. B. Egeria, it is probably that Lieutenant Helby will resign his post on that vessel and join H.M. S. Rambler, which is under orders to proceed to the China station. At the IJiguest on the collision between the mail trains froni Brisbane and Sydney at Farley, the jury found that the accident. was caused, by the culpable ueghgence bf John Farnham, driver of the train to Brisbane, and the stoker, Buchanan. Warrants haye been issued for their arrest. ' News from the Solomon Group states that during a head-taking" expedition organised by onebf the chiefs^ 50 natives were murdered, and it is expected that more bloodshed will ensue It is understood that aalmquiry will be held into the conduct of tht officers of H. M.S. Egeria, by Captaiu Barlow, D.3.0. of H.M.S. Orlando, and it has been ascertained that a notification issued by him states that the crew had no special cause for mutiny.. Melbourne, May 24. At a meeting of shareholders in the British Broken Hill Silver Mining Compauy to-day, it was stated that the furnaces at the mine haye been shut down owing to a creep in the drive where the main carbonate ore stopes, and that practically it will be necessary to reopen the mine. Another portion of the reef, estimated to contain Tover 600,000 tons o. best ore and 1,000,000 tons of poorer class, is in sight, The indebtedness of the Company i»*LI6,OOO, and the London Directors will be recommended to issue LIOO.OOO worth of debentures for the pur of opening up and further deyeloping the mine.