AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, 17 November 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ Lp'Jß united pbess association^ Sydney, November 14. Duriug the month of October, 60 deaths occurred from influenza in New South "\ya}es. Meibopbne, November 15. Baron de Hirsch has assured the Victorian Agent-General in London that hot one single Jewish immigrant would be sent to this colony seeing that it was un likely they would be welcomed. The Argus' special at Shanghai wired yesterday that the authorities had beheaded two of those taking part in the recent riot and bambooed others, but the actual leaders were screened. The latter to-day paid eleven thousand taels as indemnity for the Wnhu outrage and twenty"' thousand taels to the families of the men murdered in Wuhsuh. ; This action does not close the crisis. : Messrs Hannen and G. Jainieson, British Consuls at Ichang and Ku-Kiang respectively, state that the trouble is probably over for the winter, but will break out again in the spring, and the gunboats which bristle in Yang-tse-Kiang River l '; : ■ ■: . '■ f * i • ••■! - „ '.. ..

are ine^itabie: Jbf inaintai^^eace^^lMr ■', Hannenyi howeyer, expresses; the'6pinion | that a nai-al ?3einonWtration:s would -Haye Weil follbwed-.by ajn"assacr¥of Boropwin residents iniSbanghiai. " '% N Buisbane, November 16Shearing troubles are again looming in the future. Incendiary fires are occurring in the Western districts and the Colonial Secretary believes there is an organised arrangement to carry on operations in the same way as last year.