AUSTRALIAN NEWS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 262, 9 May 1888, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydnky, April 30. John Fikldkk, a well known jockey, whil riding Flccto in the Autumn Handicap a tho Canterbury Park races, was tin own thiough his horse stumbling. I lib left, collar-bone was broken. The Kcv. J. E. jMoulton, of Tonga, and tho Rev. F. Laughan, ot Fiji, were passengers by the s.s. (iunga. Tlioy l>ia\e come to aUcnd the Wesleyan Conference. Messis J. S. Hawthorne and F. .). Smith, Ms. LA., dcclaie ihat they m ill not eioss the tloor ot t In* Jloum 1 unle*^ the < Government have the loeomotiA cve v made m the colony. Two ot the Tongan natixe mi^ionane^ wlioweie deitoitcd to F\)\ by ihe King ot ToJiga ha\e ai lived in Sydney to .it lend the \^ c-leyan < 'onfe: i-nce. Tlie t. Taiyuan, whieli ha^ s.uled fiom Sydney to Hongkong, took away llnee boxes of gold com, containing 12,107. The I', iiml O. mail s s. Oceana will take in dOO tons ot T.ismanian giern tiuil .it Melbourne toi the London maiket. The iarmeis 01 \N'agga complain of a mice plague, the plough tinning them up in hundiec l^-. Iti- believed lo lil the lesult ot the < l meen > -land plague. Tlr nun .tie renoi ted to be giadualh i caching the .southern coast ot this colony.