AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 289, 12 June 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association). Brisbane, June 8. The Tugeri, a New Guinea tribe, notori ous for their head hunting exploits, are reported to have received a terrible thrashin" at the hands of Sir William MacGregoc and his party. Several of these undesirable gentry were killed and 50 canoes destroyed. It is believed that their power is broken, and that they will give little trouble tor a long time to come. Melbourne, This Day. The Triennial Inter- Colonial Council of Young Men's Christian Associations decided to establish a fiiud in each | centre to provide an orgauisiDg Score tary for Australasia. Lord Brassey, iv the course of a speech said the Associa tious deserved every support and recognition. There were, he said, live thousand associations with a membership of over half a million, Sydney, June 11. At a meeting of butter sellers the price was reduced 2d per lb all round. Wm. Ager was sentenced to two years for embezzling j£SOO belonging to the Fire Brigade Board. This Day. Arrived, Perthshire from London Eight Sydney sailing vessels, fully loaded, are lyiug in Nambricca River for six weeks past, owing to the river being blocked by a bank of sand. The Government is being urged to carry out dredging operations in order to allow ail these vessels to take their depar ture. Adelaide, This Day. Parliament opened yesterday Governor Buxton, in his speech, said the credit of the colony never stood higher. Hobakt, June 11. Jessie Price, of Epsom, Auckland, drew the third prize of £169 in Tattersail's sweep ou the Randwick Stakes.