AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 84, 6 January 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright ji'KU UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION [ Hobart, January 3. The total revenue of the colony for the past year amounts to j-753,000, as against .£678,000 for 1889. The increase is largely due to the silver boom. The amount of revenue estimated by the Colonial Treasurer as likely to be received has been realised. ftVDXKT, January 3 A curions point has arisen here owing to the refusal of Mr D. O'Connor, Post-master-General, to permit an obscene publication passing through the Post Office. The proprietors of the paper in question applied to the Supreme Court and obtained an injunction, but this Mr O'Connor disobeys on the ground that a Minister of the Crown cannot be called upon to alter a departmental order by any authority less than Parliament, Proceedings will be instituted against Mr O'Connor. This Day. It is stated that the defalcations of Bennett, late manager of the Paddington Branch of the English and Scottish t. hartered Bank, amount to i>13,000 The mission vessel, Southern Cross, which has arrived from the Islands, reports great mortality ainongs the Natives of the Gilbert Group, where an epidemic of measels and dysentry has been raging. Eight cases 'of true leprosy have been discovered in the Penrhyn Group. The Natives of the Hervey Group have been suftenng from La Grippe, and a large number of deaths have occurred. i Melbourne, This Day. The Premier of Tasmania has replied to Mr Munro's circular re General Booth's scheme, stating that he thinks it advisable to await fuller particulars of the scheme before discussing it. The Intercolonial cricket match between Vieti rla and South Australia was won by the latter by an innings and 62 runs. Gitfen made '237 for the winners Brisbane, January 4 A fire nt Gympie destroyed ten business premises in the centre of the town. The insurances are unknown.