AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 1 September 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TOTALISATOR BILL PASSED. |PKK UN IT XI) PRKSS AJiSOCI ATION| Bhisbanr, August 31. M. Pcrrett, suspected of being a Rusfeinn spy, was brought up at the Police Court, and remanded until Mon* day. This Day, The Assembly has passed an imposition duty of Jfc'l per ton on flour. Stdnby, August 31. Advices br the s,*. Tliinan show rhat several dicastrous typhoons occurred just before she left China. At Cholon sereral hundred houses were lerelled by a storm, and 15 penons were killed and hundreds injured. At Lung Knn many bonnes fell down, and the root of a' silk factory collapsed, killing and injuring a number of women employed. H. M. S. Penguin risited Shanghai last month, and whilst in port one of the officers, Lieut. Cawstron, short himself in his cabin, dying almost immedilitelj. He had previousy shows symptoms of a disturbed mind. William Puilhpi, manager of the Ausa tral Banking Company, has been committed for trial on charges of false pretences in connection with the Bank. This Day. The Board of Health issued a proclamation declaring that all European ports were infected. Stringent precautions will be taken against the pest. In answer to a question in the Assembly the Government stated that £1000 had been placed to Sir G. B. Dibbs' credit for the purpose ot defraying the expenses of his visit to England. Melbourne, This Day. The Totaligator Bill and Beer Duties Bill have passed through their final stages in the Assembly. The importation of rags from America is prohibited and it is proposed to disinfect the letters.