AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 191, 14 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ A COMPANY FINED £50,000. OUTRAGE BY NATIVES. DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE. THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN N.S.W. THE MASONIC SCANDAL. (PB» PBBBB ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, Deo. 18. Arrived— Monowai, from San Francisco via Auckland. The Dubbo Boiling-down Company have been fined the sum of £16,890 in addition to those inflicted against the manager and secretary for killing without a license, making a total of £50,610. A remission has been applied for This Day. Sir H. Parkes delivered an address to hU constituents last night on the " New order of autocratic Government." His speech was a severe denunciation of the Ministry. He intimated his intention to vote against granting supply when tbe House meets. It is expected tbe barque Royal Tar will go to New Zealand on her next trip from the settlement known as New Australia, in Paraguay, in order to take in. tending immigrants from that colony. Adklaids. This Day. A motion in favor of giving a bonus upon the exportation of meat was carried,' leaving the question to be inquired into by tbe Government during the recess. A motion in favor of Government advancing money upon real estate was negatived by 19 to 18. Bbisbane, This Day The native crew murdered the two white owners of the cutter Beryl, and then burned the vessel near Barron Point. A hurricane half demolished the town of Majton. Three inches of rain fell in a short time. Hobakt, This Day* The nominations for the generai flections are closed. , .-'X Sir E, Braddon, ex-Agent-GeneraV was returned unopposed for West Devon. At the trial of Briggs, charged with wrecking an Jexprees train in Hog's Shoe Valley, the Chief Justice, in summing np, said it was tbe most diabolical crime ever perpetrated in Tasmania. The jury, however, could not agree, and the prisoner was remanded till next session. Mklboubnb, D«c. 13. Lempriere, secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge, explains in connection with tbe deficiency in tbe accounts that 10 years ago his assistant robbed him of tbe fund. The matter, he says, was reported and as he thought, arranged. It has been decided to ask Lempriere to resign, and there the matter will end.