AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
LM R UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Stwjet, June 6. Mr Eddy, Chief Commissioner of Rail ways, admits that he has received a large inducement to undertake the entire management of the Caledonian Company's railways, but does not feel justified in throwing up his present CommisMoner ship until the term for which he was ap pointed is completed. Intelligence ha 3 been received from the 1 New Hebrides Islands which' states that the natives on Tanna are fighting among themselves. > Ia other' respects affairs at the Islands are quiet. - , June 7. Steamers have been despatched bolh from here and Melbourne to search for . the missing steamer Taratamunu. A Gazette has been issued dissolving Parliament,'" ana the new writs will bo issued to-morrow. The first election will be .'held on the 17th inst, and the last on July 3rd. Telegrams received,this afternoon from Wrockback statef that a 'quantity of wreckage, including a' ship's wheel and oars marked "Taramung," has been washed ashore/ From this it- is believed that the missing vessel of that name, a screw steamer of 1271 tons, has foundered during the heavy gales which have prevailed off the coast during the last few days.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 149, 9 June 1891, Page 2
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