AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 197, 21 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

UNDESIRABLE EMIGRANTS LD3ELLING A BANK. ANOTHER RICH DISCOVERY OF GOLD. (PER PHEBB ASSOCIATION.) Brisbane, Dec. 20. The Government received a communication from a resident on Thursday Island, directing attention to the influx of Japanese, including many women of ill fame. He states that the immigration is of such a character that special legislation will be required to cope with it. Sydney, December 20. A full Court upheld the conviction against the two defendants in the libel case in connection with the pamphlet entitled " Hard Cash," directed against the Bank of New South Wales. Sentence is deferred to February 19th, when the legal term begins. Melbourne, This Day. The Judge's summing up in the Speight v Syme libel action is proceeding. Lord Hopetown leaves the colony hi August next, when the time of his appointment as Governor has expired. It is estimated the wheat yield is 13,985,800 bushels, or an average slightly in excess of 10 bushels per acre; 61,045,000 are available for export. Perth, This Day. Thirty native prisoners escaped from the Windham gaol, and the police are in hot persnit. Many of the escapes are of a desperate character. A number of claims at Coolgardie have been abandoned for want of water. Fabulious rich stone has been struck in Bayley's south mine. 1,2000zs of gold were taken out in ten hours last week.