AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 94, 31 January 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ Sydney, January 28. The Gas Company lost £33,000 by the late strike. There was Great excitement at Goulbourn over the hearing of the second charge against Captain Rossi of disturbing service in the Cathedral. The people loudly cheered Rossi, and hooted the Magistrate,, and at one time violence against the latter was feared. A petition is being prepared for his removal from the bench. This Day. Over three thousand contributors of the Premier Permanent Building Society have been called on to pay up arrears and fines. This notification has fallen like a bombshell, many having declined to pay after the collapse of the Company. Th 3 amount involved is believed to be upwards of Brisbane, January 30. Large bodies of shearers are comi g to Queensland from Victoria and New South Wales under the auspices of the Pastoraliet's Union. The latter body has agreed to a confidence with the Shearer's Union on condition that the principle of freedom of contract is conceded. The first supply of Professor Koch's lymph sent to Australia has been received by a private medical man who intends to experiment on patients in the earlier stage of consumption. Melbourne, January 30 In reply to enquiries made by the Victorian Government as to whether it was intended to send English criminals and paupers to Australia under his emigration scheme, General Booth states that reference to his book " In Darkest England" will show that the fears of the Australian Governments are groundless. Adelaide, January 30. The Postmaster-General has received a ca')le message from the English* Postal Department to the effort that the re duciimi r.f the letter rale through Europe proves most embarra>ing. France de elures herself bound by legislation based on the agreement arrived ut in 1883, and to charge nil letters doublo deficiency at old rite, and as Italy will probably do the same, the' London postal authorities therefore suggest a revocation of the

new rae : - Government.- after.discussion, dec ded to revert to the onginaL rates so tar as France and Ita'.jpafe concerned. ______ .__»______.