AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 160, 31 October 1896, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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CiEMIRAL ITI.MS. Svi'M-.V. (v. ::«>• The Premier lias received a e;t,bV message from London announcing the death of Sir .1. G. In ties, puisne judge, of New South Wales. He obtained leavf oome moiitlis ago and went to England for the ben-tit of his health. The railway re venue for the September quarter has increased by £32,000 as compared with the same quarter last year. Steady rain has fallen all duv in the city, country and coastal districts. Thunder showers are reported from many parts of the colony, and the heat spell is now broken. The Johnson's Bay Yacht Club has authorised Mr M'Leer, of San Francisco, to challenge the St. Laurence Club, Canada, to sail for the small yacht challenge trophy won by it from the Seawaohaka Club, New \ ork. Mr M'Leer is to build a special boat for the race. Oct. M. It is understood that the steamship owners have increased the wages of the seamen, firemen and trimmers by I*l per month ironi to morrow. MeI.BiU,'KXF., Oct. -JO. The price of a four-pound loaf has been raised to 7idOet. HI. The Judge, in summing up in the City of Melloume Bank case, said be did not like to speak ill of dead men hut Mr Longmnir had certainly behaved most mi faithfully towards the directors. It was, he said, hard that they should be called upon to account for matters which he had concealed from tlienu The jury are out considering their verdict. The Minister for Lands has arranged to cable the .|ttarterly gold returns of the colony to the leading English papers. Obituarv*.—Arthur Bayley. w ho discovered Bay ley's Reward claim at Coolgardie. ArEt.viM. Oct. 80. The drought stricken fanners* fund has already reached f 1 *OO. The executive has decided to dismiss Archibald Watson. Pathologist at the Hospital. Beisb.vsh. Oct.:JO. Fears are entertained for the prospecting party in New (itiinea. It was reported on the lOlb that they had been massacred, but that turns out incorrect, and details show that their boat capsized and three white men, Mcl'onahi, Gibson, and McNamara,together with four Natives, were drowned. Another white man named Devilin reached the shore, but died from exhaustion.