AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 88, 15 January 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [VEU UNITED. PBKSS ASSOCIATION. | Stdsky,- January 14 Wilgas, led^erkeeper of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank' has been arrested in connection with the Bennett' frauds on a charge of falsifying his accounts. He was apparently working in conjunction with Bennett. The long standing dispute at Goulbonr<i Cafch«dral between the BisbTop and Captain Rossi, over the removal of the latter's family tablet, has been advanced a stage. Rossi has- taken possession of the Cathedral for theipurpose of replacing the tablet, and is holding the sacred edifice against all-comers. A number of the congregation attempted to enter, but after a scuffle were repulsed. Melbourne, . This 'Day. Owing to the outbreak of smallpox at Guatemala, the Government has gazetted the Republic an infected place. Public enquiry is demanded into the alleged laxityj of descipline prevailing at the City gaol. It is asserted that.for some I considerable time prisoners have been carrying on trade in tea, sagar, and tobacco, and it is an 'open secret that skeleton keys have been made by prisoners, who sold them in exchange for tobacco. ' Brisbane, This Day. The difficulty with the shearers is growing less serious, and a large number of men have signed an agreement drawn up. by the Pastoralists' Union. . w . ' , '