AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 155, 21 November 1896, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

[pbess association^ Sydney, 20th November. The Federation Convention at Bathurst devoted a day to hearing speeches by a number of prominent Federationists. Cardinal Moraa and Mr. Edmund Barton were among the speakers. (Beceived November 21, 11 a.m.) Bbisbane, This Day. Cane-crushing has practically finished for the sejwon, and the output if not expected to exceed 90,000 tons. Drought and frost have caused a great reduction in the yield. Adelaide, This Day. A Government surveying party gives gloomy reports as to the pastoral country on the Queensland Border. Over 10,000 square miles of country have, been abandoned owing to the ravages of rabbits and of the drought. In many places the rabbits have eaten themselves out. Much of the journey had to be done on camels, all the horses being dead or having been removed to prevent them from starving. Sydney, This Dat. Mr. A. H. Simpson, Q.C , has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Justice Innes on the Supreme Court Bench. , The Bathurst Convention adopted a strong appeal to the Queensland Government to take steps to be represented at the coming Statutory Convention, as otherwise ; no Federation will be complete. Melboubne, This Day. At the Bifle Association's meeting Walker, of the Melbourne Bifle Club, won all the stages of the Qpeen's Prize, making a world's record of 291 points under the Queen's Prize conditions.