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Kumara Times, Issue 3050, 12 August 1886, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Klectiuc Telegraph.—Copyhight. NEW SOUTH WALES OENTENARY CELEBRATION. PRODUCE MARKETS. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. (Received August 15, 10 p.m.) Sydney, August 11. Sailed, this afternoon, the steamship Hauroto, for New Zealand. A public meeting was held to-day to conaider the question of holding an exhibition in celebration of the centenary of the colony. A series of resolu. lions were proposed and ndopted in favour of holding a centennial exhibition at Syduey in 1888. Melbourne, August 11. The manager of the Natioual Mortgage and Agency Company of NewZealand, Limited, reports of the local market as follows :—Shipping wheat is weak, 5s 2d to 5s 3d per bushel; malting barley is a shade firmer, 4s to 4s id ; New Zealand oats, feed sorts, no material change, if anything weaker, 3s 2d to 3s 4d; malting descriptions are quieter, but steady, 3s 5d to 3s 6d j New Zealand oats, under bond, are quoted at 2a 5d to 2s 7d a bushel. Sailed, this morning, the Union steamship Waihora, for tho Bluff. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES OF LAWLESSNESS IN NORTH AUSTRALIA. The Bluff correspondent of the Press telegraphs:— Melbourne, August 3 News- received from the Northern territory states fchftt « ieign of lawlessness exists at M'Arthur. The white

population numbers about 150, and there is a considerable population scattered over the surrounding stations. Drunkenness and rowdyism are rampant. There is a perfect epidemic of lawlessness and crime. The outrages which • have been perpetrated beggared description. All the Queensland outlaws flock there, and horse stealing, forgery and crimes of violence are common, and debts are repudiated. The place is daily growing worse. Drunken men are organising with rifles and revolvers. A perfect reign of terror exists, and respectable people submit, being in fear of their lives. A gang of rowdies stuck up two stores. At one of them, Cameron's, the proprietor resisted with firearms, and the rowdies withdrew after firing their rifles into the store. The respectable residents are talking of establishing lynch law. It is impossible to hold a public meeting on the subject, as the roughs and blackguards form a majority, and overrule the rest. Mr Gorman, part owner and manager of Calvert's Downs Station, has arrived at Palmerston, seeking police assistance. He says that one notorious scoundrel is butchering his cattle, and supplying the public with them. He dare not leave his station to go to the store for the police, as he would probably find every borse stolen. Besides his cattle on the run stolen, some of his horses have already been taken. He has no control over his own men, owing to the number of grog shanties.