AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 231, 5 February 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

STATE EDUCATION CONDEMNED. RICH GOLD FIND AT COOLGARDIE. I Per Press Association.) Sydney, February 5 The Government has decided to offer £1000 bonus for the discovery of a payable alluvial goldfield. Mr Bruce, Chief Inspertor of Stock, who is at present in England, has been instructed to prolong his stay in order to obtain all possible information likely to aid in the opening up of fresh markets for preserved meat, butter, fruit and other product*. This Day. It is understood H.M.S. Goldfinch will leave for Samoa shortly, her visit being due to the critical position of affairs there. It is probable the outcome of the visit will be a general disarming of natives in all parts of the group. Newcastle, This Day. The Timaru Harbor Board's dredge, No. 404, has arrived here en route to Timaru. Captain Robertson is very ill with dropsy and has been taken ashore. The chief officer has also been taken to the hospital, suffering from Java fever. The efforts of the miners to induce the surfacemen and the shift men in the Stockton Colliery to throw the mine idle have proved futile. The latter now remember that when their wages were recently reduced 10 per cent, that the miners looked on with indifference and made no attempt to resist the reduction. Melbourne, February 4. It is understood that when the Mercantile Bank case begins on the 19th Sir M. Davies will conduct his own defence, and that Mr Gaunson will appear i'or Millidge. „ This Day. The Government has received information from Capetown, showing the labor market in that colony is fully supplied, and anyone going there has little prospect of getting work. ! Archbishop Carr has issued a pastoral letter in which he vigorously condemus State education, and suggests the Catholic schools should be made a Department of State on the same system as obtains in England aud Canada. Perth, This Day. At the new find in Baily's Reward Claim, at Coolgardie, thret hundred ounces have been taken out in two hours. The gold is exceedingly massive and at times was cut out with a chisel.