AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 130, 1 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FATAL PEIZE FIGHT AUSTRALIAN POLITICS NEW GOLD FIELD A "WIFE BEATER KILLED FIVE MEN DROWNED. (PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, November 30. The City Bank has granted Mrs Phillips an allowance of LIOO per annum for fifteen years. Melbourne, November 30. An important discovery of rich gold has been made about 70 miles north of Bairnsdale. The reef is about three feet thick. One hundred pounds of stone, only roughly crushed, yielded 2ozs 16dwts. The revenue during the past eleven months has declined by L 590.000 as compared with that of the previous year. The Commercial Banking Company is the institution referred to as about to be proceeded against for alleged inaccurate returns. Glasson left an affectionate letter addressed to his unborn child. This Day. An Adelaide cyclist has lowered the ro< cord for the journey between Adelaide and Melbourne. He covered the distance in ninety«six hours. Muntz, one of the defendaats recently committed for trial in connection with the Mercantile Bank charges, has been declared insolvent, with a deficiency of L 24.000. One of the causes is attributed to the cost ot defending prosecutions At the inquest on the body of the man Glasgow, who died after taking part in a fight, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against one of the four men who were arrested. Adelaide, This Day. The Legislative Council has approved of a proposal to establish village settlements in the colony, but dissented from voting LSO to each settler The united labour party decided that as Mr Wood's pledges to his party were not interfered with by the charge of bigamy brought against him, the matter is on« for his constituents rather than for the labor party Brisbane, November 30 A miner named McMahon living at Croydon, was stabbed to death by bis wife whom he was ill-treating at the time Thursday Island, November 80, The lugger Curlew has been wrecked and five of those on board drowned. A Kanaka survivor swam all night before reaching land