AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 65, 11 September 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

« VICTOKIAN ELECTIONS. — RUSH OF LAWYER CANDIDATES. COLONIAL PRODUCE FOB INDIA. (FBB PBKSS ASSOCIATION 1. Melbourne, September 10. The election campaign is vigorously proceeding. No less than twenty-six members of the legal profession are already announced as candidates, and proceedings in the law courts are somewhat embarrassed owing to their absence through canvassing. One result of the visit of the trade delegates to the countries in the East is that a steamer has left for Madras and Calcutta with a quantity of direct orders for colonial products, including consignments of frozen meat from New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand. SYDMSY. September 10 There are some hopes of floating the steamer Colonist, which grounded on the Newcastle bar, but it will greatly depend on the weather keeping fine. This Day. The Orlando has tailed for New Hebrediea. The despatch she has received is considered highly credible to the dockyard authorities. The dismantling occupied three weeks, and she was refitted in three days. ■ Bbisbanb, This Day. A large public meeting passed a resolution moved by Sir C. Lilley, that the Peace Preservation Bill is an endeavor to tirsurp the liberties of the people. The shearers at Longreach have declared the strike off P«KTH, This Day. The steamer Eddystone has been wrecked at Roebourne. The crew are safe. The vessel is insured for £16.500.