AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1853, 14 February 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, February 11.

Arrived—Fijian from the Bluff.

The Government have definitely decided not to exhibit at the Paris Exhibi* tion.

The protest entered by the owners of the yacht Volunteer against the Era, ; winner of the race for the Centennial Cup, has been upheld; and the cup awarded to the Volunteer. February 12. Cuirassier has .been scratched for the Australian Cup and all other principal races at the forthcoming meeting for which he was entered; The proposal to send an eight-bar crew Home is abandoned for the present, but an effort is to be made fo arrange a trip next year. The funeral of the late Mr D. Lalor was attended by an> immense concourse ot people. Lacbal, a prominent land syndicator bas failed with liabilities amounting to £330,000. His statement of assets shows a Barplus of £63,000. He attributes his position to the land boom.. , Sydney, February 11. I

News has been received from Fiji that a great hurricane traversed a portion of the islands at the end of last month. It is feared that enormous damage bas been done to plantations, and that probably there has been.loss of life.

The barquentine Neptune, bound from Melbourne to Sydney, laden with dynamite, was wrecked at Pearl Point on the south-eastern coast of Victoria, The crew were saved.

The case of McElhone v. Australian Mutual Provident Society was dismissed by the Supreme' Court. In giving bis decision the judge said that the society had a perfect right to set apart money to form a provident fund for its officers,

A Royal Commission has been ap. pointed to inquire into the charges against Mr Fehon, railway commissioner. February 12.

A typhoid epidemic has broken out at Balranald station, on the north bank of the Murrumbidgee. 554 miles south-west 1 of Sydney. A portion of the English mail vid San Francisco, destined* for Melbourne, took fire while being conveyed by express train. Sixteen bags of mails were destroyed, The only portions saved were letters which happeued to be in the centre of the bags, Many valuable documents have been lost, including some both for Adelaide and Melbourne. It is believed that the cause of the fire was some combustible matter in the bags, In several of the country districts farmers are in great difficulties owing to their crops failing through the drought, and they have applied to the Government for assistance in the direction of supplying wheat for seed for next season's crops. The Eastern Company's steamer Seine, which brought out the new cable, which is to be laid between Java and the northern portion of Western Australia, left Singapore for Banjoewaivji yesterduy. Adelaide, February 12. The Government guarantee an income of £IOOO per annum to the now cable, provided the supremacy of the Port Darwin route is m»intaiuH, Brisbane, February 12. News from INew Guinea states that the murderer of Captain Aneell, of the schooner Star of Peeoe, has been hanged in the presence of 1000 natives. Tremendous rains have falleo generally over the colony. At Normanton 17 inches fell in 24 hours, and atj Cairns 14 inches. Perth, February 11, The barque Coorong, bound from Port Adelaide to Freemantle was wrecked on the Sisters Reef. All hands were saved. February 12. Thb Government have accepted the new cable agreement. Albany, February 12. Mr Herbert Gladstone is a passenger by the Austral, which arrived from Plymouth yesterday.