AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 85, 8 January 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPKH . ■PNITiI) PKUS? ASSOCIATION. [ Bkisba.ni;, January 5 Prolonged- shocks of earthquake have besn experienced at Duray and Hawkswood: A 'difficulty has arisen owing .to the shearers declining to shear under the new • agreement with the Pastoralists Union. The latter will wait for a week to see if the men give in, and if they do not then free labour will be employed. M elbouene, January 6. Mr Hines, Engineer of the Harbour Department, will proceed to New Zealand as a representative of Victoria in selecting a site for the erection of a lighthouse on the Snares. The »o!d yield in Victoria last year was the lowest for the past ten years. January 7. There is considerable excitement in Tasmanian silver stocks, and a boom hasset in. This Day. The first mail to the United Kingdom under the 2£d rate of postage, shows an increase of. 50 per cent over the number of letters forwarded under the old tariff. The Zalinski gun purchased .some .some time ago by Victoria has been taken oyer by the Imperial Government, .and the colony thus gets rid of what looked [ like a white elephant. " ; Sydney, Jannary 7. A sculling race between McLean and Stansbury for a-side and the championship of the world has been arranged. The race will be rowed towards the end of April. ' -•. : This Day. It has been discovered that Benuett, late manager of the Paddingtou branch of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, perpetrated his frauds with great ingeuuity. He appears to have operated on the Chartered Bank as well as his own bank, by means of title deeds and other securities. His defalcations amount to fully £20,000. . \ Newcastle, January 7, The Secretary of the Miners' Union has received a cable from Dennistoh (New Zealand) appealing, for help," but as the message is not signed by theofficial secretary of the local Miners* Union, further information is required before any action can be taken in -thet matter, • ' '