AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

ANOTHER VICTORIAN INDUSTRY. REDUCTION IN FROZEN MEAT FREIGHTS. CANNIBALISM. SETTLING THE WASTE LANDS PUNISHING NATIVES. (PKK PKEBS ABBOCIATIONI Sydney, January 16. H M.S. Orlando, with Admiral Bridge, will shortly mike a visit to the various colonies. She is expected to leave here about a fortnight hence, her route being Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Hobart and then New Zealand. This Day. The Minister of Public Works states that between £'300,000 and ±400,000 will be spent on roads in the colony within the next three months. Speaking at an up country Agricultural Show the Premier Baid the AgentGeneral's office in London must be made more useful to the people, and display more commercial activity. The Government is sending an expert irrigationist to Bourke to plot out 400 acres in the vicinity of the artesian bore in 20 acre forms. Melbourne, January 16. A splendid sample of hemp, 14ft high, grown in East Gippsland, has reached the Agricultural Department, and it is stated hemp will grow to advantage in that district. The Newport freezing works have made a concession of £cl per pound on freights to London and makes a similar reduction in freezing charges on February shipments. A gentleman named Hall, recently deceased, after making a few legacies, left the bulk of his estate to establish a Consumptive Home for vibe respectable poor. Brisbane, January 16. Sir Thomas Mcllwraith has sailed for England for the benefit of his health. Perth, January 16. One of the ringleaders in the recent cannibalistic feat gives gruesome details of the affair. He states that one native impaled a boy by ramming a pointed stick down the lad's throat, and then roasted him, Thursday Island. This Day. A number of natives belonging to j British New Guinea have been sentenced to terms of imprisoument ranging up to 10 years for murdering 16 natives who took refuge uear the Fly river during the gales.