AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 79, 20 December 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPKR UNITKD PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | Stdnet, December 18. News from Samoa report severe shocks of earthquake on the island of Niufou. The naiives abandoned their villages in terror. A number of cases of leprosy have been discovered in Samoa. This Day. The Amateur Athletic Association have decided to be represented at the New Zealand championship meeting at Auckland, and they wih send several representatives who will compete in the foUowing events : 100 yards, 250 yards, 440 yards, half mile, one mile, three mile, one mile walk, three mile walk. Brisbane, December 19. A succession of terrific storms have passed over tbe city and neighbourhood during the past week causing great damage. This Day. The weather bureau report that the squally weather prevailing on the Isew i South Wales coast is crossing iv the direction of the South Island of New Zealand. The barque Sunbean which has arrived from Glasgow, reports haying been in collision with a Frenoh barque Valentine Henlen at the equator. Both vessels were bad y damaged. Melbourne, This Day. At the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Ballarat tragedy the evidence ef those who made the post mortem examination proved that Johnson, the father, administered prussic acid to his children before he suffocated them.