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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 89, 17 January 1891, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraphs— -Copyright j'PBR UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. [ Sydney, January 15. Mr O'Connor, the Postmaster-General, having entered an appearance in the case wherein an injunction was granted to the proprietors of a certain newspaper, whose passage through the . Post-Office had been stopped, a decision was .given in his fayour with costs. The Court held that the injunction had been obtained by the withholding of evidence of a material character, which, if known, would have j j prevented its issue even temporarily. The j i Court held it had no right to grant the J injunction if it would have the effect of controlling at discretion property vested in the Minister of the Crown. The Earl of Jersey, the new Governor of the colony, was warmly welcomed on bis arrival to-day, and was sworn in at once. ' January 16. Stations -up the river Darling report that heavy raius have fallen lately in the interior, and some anxiety is felt for the safety of Bourke in the event of floods. " The Secretary of the Shearers' Union has requested a conference with the Pastoralists' Union, believing that the whole difficulty can be amicably settled. Adelaide, January 16. The Rio Janeiro, with two cases of confluent smallpox on board, has, arrived. Another patient is sickening for it. - Brisbane, January 16 Heavy rains have fallen throughout the Colony, and floods are reported from several districts. At present, however, they are not serious. MiOiBOUBNE, January 16A locomotive driver named Phelan murdered his paramour, named Hatton, half severing the head from the body. He then attempted to commit suicide. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the act,