AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 125, 25 November 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DEATH AT SEI CHAMPION TENNIS PLAYER INTERCOLONIAL RIFLE MEETING (PEB PBEBS ASSOCfATIOV.) Sydney. November 24. A Hawkers and Peddlers Licensing Bill will be introduced in the House next week. It is a most drastic measure, and absolutely prohibits Asiatics and aliens from obtaining hawker's licenses. It else provides that Magistrates shall not grant licenses to Asiatic, Afghan, or Chinese carriers. Jimmy Hoy, the Chinese murderer, was executed at Mudgee to-day. Death was instantaneous. Mr Melville moved in tlio Legislative Assembly that the Education Act' Amendment Bill, which provides for free education, be reported, Mr Suttor asked the House to reconsider its action in passing the second reading. He declared the people were willing to pay for the schooling of their children, and that, therefore, the Bill would be very hard on the Treasury, withdrawing the sum of £80,000 annually. The Bill was reported by 24 votes to 10. Mr E. M. Clark has announced his in* tention of shortly introducing in the Legislative Assembly a Bill providing for suppression of betting and gambling, and to extend and amend the Acts relntmg to games and wagers, and to the suppression of betting houses, the Post* age Act Amendment Act of 1893, and to prevent certain kinds of loitering. This Day. The experiment of sending mandarin oranges and lemons to London, packed in titree bark, has resulted successfully, and a very small percentage of fruit was damaged. Melboubne, This Day. Arrived— Acacia, from Tairua. During a heavy gale a seaman named Alexander McDonald was washed overboard and drowned, Mr Green, of Victoria, performed the unique feat of winning three championships at the tennis tournament. Monsborough. of Ballarat, won the Queen's Prize at the Rifle Association meeting, with a score of 272, Vernon, of New South Wales, being second with 270. Premier Patterson inclines to the opinion that the Chief Commissioner of Railways should be selected from the leading traffic managers in America. Mr Drew, a member of the well-known firm of McCready, Drew, and Co., of Melbourne, who is charged with being concerned in the embezzlement of LI O,OOO has been remanded till January, bail being allowed. An application for the discharge of Drew on the ground that another partner, McCready, had been discharged by the London Magistrate, was refused Hobabt, This Day. Sailed, Kassa for Lyttleton, Kenilworth for Auckland Newcastle, This Day Sailed, Grecian Bend, for Timaru ; Kate Tathain for Napier