AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 37, 24 September 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LPIE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Syijnet, September 22. Obituary — Rev. Mr Pickering, one of tie Wesleyan pioneers who had been 40 years in the Colony. The Australian Mutual Investment Building Company, one of the largest of the kind in Australia, has suspended payment. The collapse is due to tlio falling off in deposits, and the effect ( f the winding up of kindred institutions. This Day. The Anglican Synod of Australia has shelved the motion favoring the assignment of the title of Archbishop to the Primate of Australia. The directors of the Australian Mutual Investment and Building Company are confident that they will be able to tide

over the difficulty if the depositors will consent to renew their deposits. M elbouene. This Day. Easy John is scratched for the Caulfield Cup. " General" Booth last night addressed 10.000 people on " Darkest Fngland." The aux'liary squadron has arrived here, and the officers were accorded a hearty welcome Bbisbane, September 22 The investigation infer the affairs of the Trans-Pacific and General Insurance , Company r<veais an extraordinary state of affairs. The nominal capital is a million, but only £400 had been paid up. . The liquidators report that even the furniture had been mortgaged to enable the affair ts be kept afloat. The net loss; is estimated at £6400. \