AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 92, 16 October 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■» .. ' (PKII PBESS ASSOCIATION). 1 Sydney, This Day. ' The riflemen from Wellington have 1 arrived in j^ood health. A cyclist named Vider has lowered the > colony's bicycle road record for a 100 ' miles, doinx the distance in 7 hours 3min. 1 The schooner Louisa Messel, bound to Gisborne, has put in for repairs. She met with a heavy pale after leaving Newcastle and sustained some damage. Melbourne, This Day. The Premier, Mr Patterson, has re- , ceived a despatch from the Secretary of ' State for the Colonies stating that the Imperial authorities share the views ex* pressed by the Victorian Government that inconvenience and loss, and perhaps danger, might arise in time of war by the t Pacific cable passing through New Uale- - donia, and the Imperial Government i could not but view the action taken by Queensland and New South Wales in subsidising such cable as an implied de« i parture from the principle of colonial " cohesion and consideration for Imperial I interests to which prominence was given i at the Colonial conference in 1887. Hobabt, This Day. Sir E. C. ' Braddon has informed the Government that tho New Zealand Ship- ) ping Company and Shaw Saville Company t have agreed to convey emigrants to Tas- > mama on the same terms as has been con- , ceded in the case of emigrants booked to