AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 3 September 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

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(Received September 3, 1.30 p.m.) PICTURE COLLECTION at DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. Sydney, This day. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, referring to the collection of pictures to be exhibited at the Dunedin Exhibition, says it wouidhave been possible to have secured a larger collection, only the conditions imposed were not suoh as to induce owners of valuable pictures to proffer them freely on loan. FLOODS. Heavy floods have been experienced. The country between Albury (N.S.W.) and Wodonga (Victoria) is submorged. A farmer named Heather has been drowned.

THE RINGWOOD MURDER. Melbourne, This day. Landell, a civil engineer, has beeD arrested for tho murder of Mr Sherlock, a civil ! en_>iueer at Ringwood. The accused admits shooting the deceased, but says it was accidental. MELBOURNE FISHERMEN. The Argus referring to the demands of the Viotorian fishermen to impose a duty on New Zealand fish, says it would bo better if the Victorian fishermen were less indolent, did less growling about rings and middlemen, aud wero more energetic in their efforts to put the trade on a business footing. The trade is miserably apathetic, and tho present competition will probably do good all round.

THE LONDON STRIKE. -At a mass meeting to express sympathy with the London dockmen's strike £1700 was collectod.