AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
LP"SB UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION. J Sydney, September 24. The Mercantile Building Company has suspended payment in consequence of the panic caused by the failure of the Australian Investment Building Compaay. Mr Howe, the member for Bourke, ar- , rested on a charge of obtaining i-690 by fraudulent pretences, bas been committed for trial. September 25. News from the New Hebrides states that head hunting is daily carried on at Tanna Island, one of the group, ami most revolting atrocities are perpetrated on each other by the tribes at war. So far the whites have not been interfered with, though their position is an unen«viuble one, as bullets are constantly flying about. Melboitbsr. September 24. Influenza shows no sign of abatement. There is scarcely a family which has not been visited by it, and business is seriously interfered with. The Marine Court found the captain of the, barque Fiji, which was wrecked with considerable loss of life on the Vietoriau coast, guilty of gross miscon duct, and suspended his certificate for IS months. Hobakt. September 25. Mr Marsden, fourth officer of the Union Company's steamer Wairarapa. fell overboard when the vessel was off Cape Raoul on the voyage from Mcl« bourne, and was drowned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 38, 26 September 1891, Page 2
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