AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 204, 2 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FATAL FLOODS* IN GIPPSLAND. A MENACE TO SOCIETY. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Mklbotbmk, January 1. The heaviest floods on record are being experienced in Gippsland, where greut damage has been done to properfy and stock. Housea m the river flats have been washed away. Railway and telegraphic communication has beon interrupted. » Mr Addison, one of the city Magistrates in passing sentencel on a larrikin, said that things had come to such a pass that the citizens would shortly be under the necessity of forming vigilance committees to assist the police to put down j larrikin pest. Later. The Hoods in Gippsland district are subsiding. A boat containing a rescue party was swamped, and three men named Piggott, Brooks, aud a Chinaman were drowned. The revenue returns point to the possibility, at the end of the financial year, of a deficit of £300,000, instead of the estimated surplus of .£3400. Mrs Knorr has been completely prostrated since the decision of the Executive Council to carry out the death sen- ] tence. j This Day. For some unknown reason the Cabinet deemed it expedient to reverse their previous decision to dispence with the services of Dr Pearson as Secretary to the Agent-General in London. Premier Patterson, after nature reflection, said it would be ridiculous to degrade the office of either Agent- General or Secretary by reducing it to the level of that of a butter man. Svdnky, This Day. Owing to the excessive dry weather the maze crop in the Graf ton district is partially ruined. The Sunday Times alleges that during the recent cruise of one of the vessels belonging to the Australian Squadron, she was made a floating hell for the men by the tyranny of the officers. The paper asserts that owing to the treatment to which he was subjected, one of the men committed suicide, aud that unless the authorities take action in the matter it will end in a repetition of H.M.S. Egiria episode. Newcastle, This Day The miners in the Wallarah colliery have struck work. Adelaidb, This Day The steamer Teutorduu has beeu finally abandoned aud will be sold as she lies on the reef.