AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[PBISS ASSOCIATION.] Melboubnk, 27fch July. Many cattle are starving in Gippsland in oonsequenoe of the oontinned Bnowfalls. The weather is intensely cold. Foxes have become a great pest in the Fort Fairy Distriot. They were so canning that it was impossible to destroy them until the method was adopted of shooting birds, and. without touobing them with the hands, stuffing strychnine in the throats and leaving them en the trails. Large numbers have sinoe been found dead. Kbibbani, 27th July. Shearing has been resumed at the Bowen Downs Station, the scene of the recent poisoning outrage, and the kitchen is guarded by policemen. Thcbsdat Island, 27fch July. Water ia flowing in and out of the fore compartment r>f the steamor Argue, ashore near Cape York. Four hundred tons of aoal have been jettisoned. The wind is freshening, and if it increases it is expected the vessel will work badly on the reef. Sydney, 28th July. If the proposed Australian Smelting Company — which is being promoted in • London to oreot works at Illawarra — eventuates, it means an increase in the output of the Illawarra coalmines of aboit 6000 tons daily. (Beoeived July 29, 0 30 a.m.) Stdnit, This Day. The half-yearly report of the Joint Stook Bank shows the net profits to have been .£24,900, and the balance from last half was -626,300. A dividend of 4 per cent, is recommended, and £1500 is to be added to reserve and .£2OOO carried forward. Mblboubnk, This Day. The Ao ting- Governor has writted a eulogistic letter to Ferguson, the hero of the Eldorado mine disaster. Adelaide, This Day. Miss Bamaay, the remaining small-pox patient from the Lusitunia, is reoovermg. There is no further sign of the disease. Hobabt, This Day. '" The Government intends to propose an Unimproved Land Tax of Jd in the £. Perth, This Day. The Norwegian barque Agra, loading at Bunbury for London, went aground during a gale, and struok heavily. She is likely to become a total wreak.