AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. PHYLLOXERA IN THE VINE. YARDS. REMISSION OF DUTIES TO ENCOURAGE INDUSTRIES. CHINESE LEPERS. (Per Press Association.) Melbourne. August 24. A human ostrich has just departed this life at Weadouree Asylum. A postmortem examination discovered the fact that the man had eaten ninety-live pieces of blanket, averaging six by three inches. He Lad also an appetite for meals of pebbles nnd other hard substances but blaukots were his undoing, cau-jing inflammation of the bowels from which he died. This Day. The cabinet has decided to take ex ten.-ive measures for the eradiction of phylloxera in the Jfcudigo district. All (he vineyards are to be destroyed within ;\ radius of two miles of the infected areas. Brisp.axk, This Day. The Chamber of Commerce has approved of the remission of duties as a step in the direction oi' encouraging industries and commerce. By an arrangement with the Chinese Government fill Chinese lepers in the colony, excepting one who escaped and took refuge on an island where he will be kept quarantined, will be shipped to China. Adelaide, This Day. Several severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at Burra, which'caused much consternation. People were thrown down, and plaster shaken from the walls and ceilings. Sydney, This Day. Arrived — Tarawera. Owing to extensive falls in the Wickham colliery, Bullock Island, the men refuse to work, and the mine is closed ponding inspection.