AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 246, 26 February 1894, Page 2

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(PEB PKE>3 Ah>OCIATIOX.) Albany, February 25 One of the crew of the R.M.S Massilia which has arrived here from London, is Buffeiiog from small pox. j Sydney, Febmary 25 A large number of miners a-e leaving the mining <h- nct-t for Cooigardie j»old fields in Western Australia. Melbourne, This Day. The deficit for the current year is estimated at i' 270,000. Friction has arisen between the Premier aud Archbishop Carr. In declining an invitation of the Trades I and Labor Council to take part in a ! deputation to the Premier on the subject of the unemployed, Archbishop I Carr wrote regretting that lie could not, with any sense of respect, attend with ) the deputation as the attitude Mr Patterson had adopted towards the Leongatha Labour Colony forced him to believe that participation in the proponed deputation would be useless and humiliating, The cause of his disapprobation is that the Premier praised the founders of the Leongatha Colony for self-sacrifice, but veered round when attked for a larger amount of monetary support than he had at first proposed. Brisbane, This Dar The Danish barque Carlius, from New York, struck on a rock and sank in a few minutes. The crew escaped in boats. The barque Peuine Parker was driven over the reefs near Chesterfield Group during a hurricane. By continual pumping she was kept afloat. The country round the Charevall terminus of the Great Western railway, 483 miles inland from Brisbane, is in a deplorable condition owing to the drought. Stock is dying in largo numbers and unless rain falls shortly the selectors will be forced to abandon their holdings. Adklaide, Tlii* Day. A rich gold discovery has been made near Wankaringa, 226 miles inland. A portion of the lode submitted to assey yielded 7.0 ounces per ton.