AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 147, 4 June 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lpsr united pbkss association..! Brisbane, June 2. Mr C, S. Wragge, Government Meteor* olo«ist, has specially warned the shipping' .that a barometric disturbance is about to be experienced, approximately in latitube36 south, longitude 158 eislfc passing over the .Pacific in a northeasterly course, .probaMy between Norfolk Island and the North Island of 'Sew Zealand. Sydnet, Juno 2. i The first intimation of fche coarse Government intend. to j)ur sue in the present '

crisis, was conveyed in a Gazette posted up in the Parliament Buildings announcing prorogation until 16th inst. The Government are very reticent as to the next step, Hit it is understood that the Gazi'tte wiM be issued on Saturday dissolving Parliament. Hnnsen, sentenced to death for the murder of Dunk, at Peak Hill, was hanged to»day. June 3. Both the Government and Opposition parties are actively engaged in preparing for the comiug campaigu. ' It is understood that the Opposition leave Federation ,au open question, while Protection and the one man one vote question will be the prominent features iff their pro gramme. The Labour' Party made strenuous but unayailing efforts to induce Sir George Grey to remain over the election to assist them. Wheat, milling, 5s (very smill qnanti ties are being offered for sale) ; flnur, stone made,|£lo 53 to £10 15s ; roller, £11 10s to £12 ; oats, feeding sorts, J.s 6d to 2s ; seed, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; maize. 2s 4d ; bran, lOd ; pollard, lOd. market '•lull. Potatoes, New Zealand grown, £2 2s 6d ; Circular Heads, £2 10s to £2*los ; onions, £4 10 to £4 12s'6d . Butter, New Zealand, 9d to Is ; dniry made, Is Id ; factory, Is 3d ; cheese, s£d to 7^a ; bacon, machine m>ide, 5d to b'd ; hand made. 6M to 7d ; hams. New Zealand, lOd to lid. Melboubne, Jun9 3. Eetums for the past month show that under the new cable rates the reciepta are sixteen per cent below the monthly average under the old tariff while the number of words transmitted has increased eighty per cent.