AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 37, 11 September 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPKK UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | Sydney, September 9. At a meeting of the Presbytery to-nij{ht the Key. Mr Gnr liner sent a written con fession of his guilt, and asking to be leniently dealt with. The Piesbytery deposed him from the ministry, and iu- \ strutted the Moderator to pass spntenci; at the next meeiing. September 10. The Federation resolutions were amended to provide that delegates should be elected by ballot, and then carried by 97 to 10. Sir H. Parkes and Messrs McMillan, Dibbs and Jabbott were elected delegates. Sir H. Parkes was too ill to make a speech in reply. A valuable discovery of antimony was made on the Nambucca river. The ore yields sixty to 70 per ceno of metal. The Age hopes that Sir George Grey will re- visit Australia, and take part in the Federation deliberations. Adelaide, September 10, The barque ashore at Cape Jervis is the Cartheat t, from Adelaide to Valparaiso. She is in no danger and is expected to be floated off. This Day. The House of Assembly has appointed ft select committee to consider the desirableness of granting bonuses on exported butter, cheese, wines and other produce. Brisbane, Tin* Day Two sisters named Neill quarrelled through jealousy, and one of them, aged nine years, battered her sister's head till the died.