AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 75, 26 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BIG LIBEL ACTIONS. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. HEAVY FLOODS IN VICTORIA. (PER rRKSS ASSOCIATION.) MRtitounNK, This Day. Mr Francis, Chairman of the Railway Commissioners, has issued writs against the Argils and the Australasian, claiming .£IO,OOO damages for libel. Hayes, a well-known jockey, is suing the Australasian for £5000 damages for libel in connection with the paper's comments on the Victorian Racing Club refusing to renew his license. The shareholders and depositors in the Permanent Building Society have advertised a scheme ot compromise. Heavy floods are reported in tho western districts. The railway embankment at Hamilton was washed way. It is the heaviest ilood since 1870. Other towns are also Buffering from the effects of the rain < Adelaide, This Day. The fifth session of the Australasian Assembly for the advancement of science was|opened yesterday. After the preliminary business had been got through Sir J. Hector, lor Doctor Sterling, read a paper on " Prehistoric man." Buisuank, This Day. The men arrested on suspicion of theft of gold from Mount Morgan were remanded. Several on'ered to turn Queen's evidence. Sydney, Sept. 25. Mr Goodman, of Sydney, is negotiating with Messrs Nelson 8r03., in London, to supply Kosher meat killed under Jewish rites, and it is believed that the meat could bo supphod in Londou at 4d a pound. A large trado is expected to be opened up.