AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 77, 16 December 1890, Page 2

AUSTR ALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jPEIt ' UNIT£D; PJBKSS ASSOCIATION. | , Hobabt, Desember 14. The B.M.S. -Tainai arrived from London at 11 o'clock ycsterdaj morning, and Riuled for Nev .Zealand :at^a.m. to-day. She has 82 passeßgers ..for ; A.u»trnlian ports,; and 136 for New .Zealand.- During . the; voyage two deaths :occurred T . that of it'ie .Rev M. Boss taking place on 'November 18h, and Mr G W, .Herbert on -De cember Btb. :-..-. • v ::. r>. . ... . ;• Std^t, This Day. ! In. the House of) .Assembly: last night, Mr Ciibbs, leade/r,of,the .Qpposition^isQpported the Premier's action iwith reference to a = speech made by, ,Cricfc atiLambton on Saturday. ., Ultimately the/motion that the. Spealser .request Mr Griek to staje. if he , had : used , .the,; language. , attributed to him was I carrie,d;by.>6,6 I /fc0,23. -Mr Crick thereupon jdenied that he had used the specific words, " t Parliament waa.rotten and l corrupt." ' 4 •:'-. A boy aged fifteen hag. been arrested on a charge of making several; attempts to burn down the "Marjlbpne; station,.. near Dubbo, and also of placing poison in several articles of food. ... ; ". , Melboubne, This Day. In consequence of the Queensland Government declining to take part in the cable, subsidy and guarantee, Mr J. G. puffy,Poßtmaster-General,doubts whether the proposed reduction in the cable tariff will come into operation on January Ist.