AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 198, 22 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i ANOTHER BOATING FATALITY, '. NO RAIN FOR THREE YEARS. (PEE PREBB AB9OCUTIOS.) Melbouknb, This Day. Phylloxera has appeared in Bendigo ■ district. The Government Viticultaral experts report that the disease is known as the "black spot." It appears at Wedderburn, and, if not checked, the i colony, in a few years, will not be able ; to produce the finer table grapes. At the distribution of prizes to the 1 riflemen, the Premier predicted that union in defence matters would be the first bond of federation and the day was not far distant when the whole of the colonial forces would be under one commandant, with subordinate officers interchangeable between the colonies. Three boys, Geer and two brothers i named Raynor, have been drowned in i Lake Beminyong by the capsizing of a boat. S*dhby, This Day. i A vessel has arrived from the Gilbert i Group with news that no rain has fallen • for three years. She was unable to obtain cargo, and the natives are suffering ,great privations. The Hon. Mr MclntjTe, Victorian , Minister of Lands, who returned by the steamer : Wairarapa from Auckland, in the course of an interview stated [ that the apprehension he had of the success of the Victorian Village Settlements was- considerably abated after observing the working of the system in New Zealand. As regards the frozen meat trade, he considered that Victoria was as suitably situated 1 as New Zealand for developing the trade. The importance of the subject was so great that Victoria should not delay in extending the trade already commenced.