AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 9 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE PACIFIC CABLE. DIAMOND DISCOVERY. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Svdxky, January 8 New South Wales, in their first iunigs against South Australia, scored 393. Newell (60), Iredale (64), Moses (104), and Calloway (uot out, 60.) Referring to Mr Sand ford Fleming's Pacific cable scheme, Mr Kidd, Postmaster General, thinks that the best route for the cable would bo from Bundaberg (Queensland), via Fiji, Samoa, Fanning Island and Honoluln, touching at some other small islands en route to Vancouver. This scheme would not prevent a connecting line being laid from New Zealand to Fiji. This Day. The R.M.S. Alameda delivered the English mails, via San Francisco, in fifty-three hours under contract time. Captain All man of the Union Company's Rotom&hana, was presented with an address and a piece of plate by the passengers on her last trip from Auckland. The whole of the Nairnshire's cargo will have to be discharged to allow a complete survey of vessel being made. The unemployed in the Wartah mine at Newcastle have removed their tools, declining to accept the reduction in the hewing rates. Addressing ;i meeting at Collingwood Mr Barton, late Attorney-General in the New South Wales Government, said the time was ripe for federation, and although a protectionist he would rather have Free trade and federation than no federation at all. The apathy of the people was the greatest obstacle in the path. Adelaide January 8. A large diamond has been found at Mount Kingston by a miner who was fossicking for gold, It is a true diamond but the tint is yellow. This Day. Professor W. Lowrie, principal of the Agricultural College, has resigned. He took this step in consequence of criticism passed upon the management of the College in the Legislative Assembly. Bbisbane, This Day The Colonial Treasurer intimates that by a clerical error in the figures issued at the end of the year instead of a credit balance of .£10,700, there should be a debit balance of i-79,900. . No bill has been returned against Milne in connection with the Mount Morgan gold robberies. Tiiubsday Island, This Day. An insane Japanese murdered a Japanese woman by stabbing her in six places with a short sword. The murderer afterwards attempted to commit suicide. .^________^___