AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 206, 4 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, January 3 The complete returns of the colony up to the end of tie year s'aow a surplus of £ 18,000. Hyde, who was shot by his wife, is deal. Mrs Hyde has beeu arrested on a charge of murder. Tbe f jllowing constitute the cricket team which is to visit New Zealand :— Walford, Davis, Searle, Austin, Cazaphin, Mo ire, Gould. Miller, A. Noble, E. jfoble, and Cowley. Tbis Day. The four Associated Collieries in the Southern districts have accepted a reduction in the hewing rates but the miners in South Bulli, Bellambi, and Mount Kemble mines refusing to agree to the reduction the proprietors bave decided to shut dowu for a couple of months. Returns of tbe Newcastle coal trade for the past year show a falling off in exports of 310,000 tons as compared with last year. Melbourne, This Day. At Orbost, in East Gippsland district, 5000 acres of maize were destroyod by the floods. Fifteen inches of rain fell in ! one week in that district. At Mr Speight's instigation tbe trial on tbe otber ten counts in tbe libel action against the Age will be resumed without delay as the preliminaries need not be repeated. There is some talk of raising a public subscription to pay the Age costs. Mr Purves, the principal counsel retained by The Age, received 750 guineas as a retainer fee and 30 guineas per day refresher, and Mr Deakin received 250 guineas retainer fee and 15 guineas a day. Mr Duffy, Mr Speight's leading lawyer, was paid 400 gpineas fee and 20 guineas per day ; Mr Coldham 300 guineas fee and 15 guineas per day. Launoeston, This Day. The Silver Queen mine at Zeehan has struck payable ore in tbe last crosscut which wUI probably be the main lode.