AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 242, 15 April 1897, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Sydney, April 14. A rumour is current that Sir Baul Samuel, Agent-General for N.S.W., is about to resign, and that Bunker, Colonial Secretary is named as hi 9 successor. The Minister of Lands received a letter from a resident of Capetown which states that owing to the drought, thejrinderpest, native troubles and other evils, many Englishmen who went to South Africa with small capital with the intention of entering farming pursuits are afraid to risk their money. He asks information in regard to settlement in Australia, the Miniflter supplying the information. He believes from the tenor of the letter there is a strong probability thae many will be induced to come to Australia. Nouniean news states that the two chiefs lately banished frona Raiatea (Society Islands] , with their families j and attendants, have been located in ! New Caledonia, where they have been allotted land and .supplied with agricnlt ; ural implements. • At the Royi\l Agricultural Show Mr ; Baldwin's Autonomy won the champion prize for blood stallions, Mr Hordern'e Meridian was first of the champion mares, and Mr Douglass' Nabob was first ot the champion coaching sttallions. This Day. The Austrian scientific expedition to the Solomon Islands, interrupted by the massacre of Baron Morbeck. is not to be abandoned. Doctor Mann has arrived to take up Morbeck's work, and the . cruiser Albatross leaves for the Solo- ( mons in a few days. Melbourne, This Day. Over £6000 has already baen subscribed for the Jubilee Fever Hospital