AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 72, 22 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MORE CYCLING RECORDS. A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. ATTEMPTING TO POISON SHEARERS. (PER PRES3 ASSOCIATION 0 Sydney, This Day W. J. Haywood, cyclist of New Zealand, has reduced the Australian mile record to 2tnin 23 l-ssecs, and C. E. Hall, New Zealand, the five mile record to lßmins 6 2-ssecs. Melbourne, This Day. The Colonial Treasurer denies that the Government favor the loan proposals as mentioned by the Financial Times, and states it is unlikely the terms of the dealers and brokers will be accepted. In the House of Assembly sugar duties proposed by the Government were carried by 43 to 33. September 21. The Argus publishes a rumour that France is willing to sell New Caledonia to Russia for the purpose of turning it into a naral stronghold. It is believed that the report; is circulated for the purpose of making England and Australia anxious to purchase the island. Adelaide, This Day. The Government have carried their Land Tax proposal by 21 to 9. An amendment in favor of the New Zealand scheme of Progressive Land Tax was negatived. The Absentee Tax was carried without division. Bbisbane, This Day. A suspicious illness, attended with convulsions, was reported among the shearers on the Terrick Station. One man sue* cumbed. Enquiry proved that the bread supplied them was thickly impregnated with strychnine. Sir H. Norman withdrew his acceptance of the Vice-Royalty of India purely from consderations of health and from the feeling that great inconvenience would be caused to the Imperial Government, if, after entering upon the duties of the office, he should have to resign.