AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 260, 10 March 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

HIGH JINKS IN "NEW AUSTRALIA." A SUGGESTIVE BANKRUPTCY. SMALL POX AT PERTH. (PEH PRESS ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, This Pay. The Government has cabled to Lord Rosebery, congratulating him upon his accession to the office of Prime Minister. Professor H. A. Tubbs, who has been appointed professor of classics at the Auckland University College, was entertained last night at a farewell gathering at the Melbourne University. Mr Justice Molcsworth, Judge of the Court of Insolvency, refused an application for the release of a bankrupt estate iv which the liabilities amounted to -£iyß,ooo, and the creditors had accepted a dividend of a halfpenny in the i.'. His Honor said he would like to see a law passed to prevent a man obtaining his {clearance, when such a small dividend was paid, until six years had elapsed. The Premier is opposed to the penny ocean postage, and thinks 2£d reasonable enough. The proposed reduction, he says, will only increase the subsidies already paid by the colonies. Sydnky, This Day The City Council by 13 votes to 9, ret;ined the resolution recently passed prohibiting the sub-letting of contracts. An extensive rush has set in at Wyalocg. The Warden reports that he believes it will prove a rich permanent field. A thousand meu are already on the ground. Bpirbank, This Daj. The barque William Manson, regardinf.; whose safety there has been considerable anxiety owing to the fact she had 200 coloured recruits on board, has arrived safely. Adelaide, This Day. Further letters have been received from the settlers at the " New Australia " settlement iv Paraguay. They described tlui recent ejection of several members for breaking the rules as resembling in many respects an Irish eviction. Subsequo Lit to the evictions official uofcice was posted intimatory to the families desirous of leaving the settlement would be allowed £6 5s for man and wife, half that amount for each child, and single meu would receive £4 16s. Fifteen married couples and seventeen single meu accepted the offer and removed their belongiugs from the settlement. The people who left had paid in about i'lfiOO and on leaving received something under .±#oo, those persons who left the settlement numbering in all about eighty-one are now assembled at Villa Rica and have laid their situation before the British Consul. Pfutii. This Day. A half-caste aboriginal girl has been found suffering from small-pox.