AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 120, 2 April 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright |PEf« UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ Sydney, April .1. Returns attached to the report furnished by the Finance Committee, 'show that there are 64,000 males of military age in Australasia, exclusive ' of Maories. It is estimated that the population of Australasia last December was 3,900,000. ■ The amount of import duties received was equal to £2 6s 5d per head of the population. ' Wlieat'-Chiek, 3s 3d ; milling Ss lOd to 4s. Oats, milling, Is lid to 2s; maize, nf j w crop 2s to 2s 3d ; old crop, 2s dd.'o 2s 6d- B rl<*y— Cape. 2s ; English, 2- 6d. Brnn. 7^l ; pollard, Bfd. PeasBlue Prussian, 3s 8d to 3s 10dMelbourne, This Day. The revenue for the past nine months has fallen short of the estimate by £300,000. There appears to be strained relations between Rear- Admiral Lord Charles Soott and the Victorian Government. Some time ago a suggestion was made a naval demonstration be held on the arrival of the "Auxiliary ~ fleet and the ,proposition was favourably entertained by the Government, but when the matter was brought under the notice of the Admiral he replied in terms, of manife-t umbrage at t!ie interference of the Government, and intimated he would make his own arrangements for the reception of the fleet. Brisbane, This Day. The military authorities at Barcaldine, haying been boycotted by the earners, are unable, without great difficulty, to procure supplies for the troops. Tho Government have gazetted regulations to the effect that any persons refusing to work for the Government will render themselves liable to a fine of £100. No further difficulty is anticipated on this head. An attempt has been made to wreck a railway bridge at Clermont. .. Pjrrth, April 1. The German barque Ludwig. on her voyage from Natal to Adelaide with a cargo of coal, was burnt to the water's edge about 130 miles south of Cape Leeuwin. . The crew took to the boats, and arrived here, safely. MpiBOURNR, April 1. The Agent- General has been instructed o place the three million loan on tho market at an early date. -