AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 115, 28 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■%y^Electrio Telegraph.— Copyright [PKB UNITED FBESS ASSOCIATION..) Sydney, April 26. The annual stock returns for the •Colony, as prepared bj the BejjistrariieneraJ< show; as : ,- follows :— 390,000 borieV l,soGi,oOQ,beful pf cattle, 47,000,-! Ibenpol clip, for the .ye^r reached Cardinal Morar.; Whd tdabout to 'risit Brome^ha§been presented , with a .purse' T,ne f reoeDt deputes which, ■ jlace id the Le^fslatiye, , AisepbJ j betwwii MesiTs Haynes and i^letoher haye re; iulted in the former 'taking 'pfitceedingq against Mrt FleWher'To^assaul^'aVld -damages haTe been^fixed at "£6OOO. The defendant hag^now acknowledged the offeuce and-/ ;i[ets*p!n^a£s into Conrtj which he alfeges isi;t|^f^ll amount foij ► which he i^radleb'ted?^? * I 1„ . -Mr Haj nes has declined;. ; t0 J i^eoeire>the 'amount pa'fd mro the court rbJlMr; 1 Fletcher in satisfaction of the. clainJ for '• damages fbr ; thei»si»ault : eoinmittedj'-and the: case will i short! j be • heard ! ia j the 1 Supreme; Gourt.wr; --.Xr -;■■?]< ■■~v .b-.arii ' ' • 6 ss.,vieyf o£ possible dancer from the . introdue;ion B of X^e^ttessia^t^ljt* '#«>"» New .Zealand, the GoTeraaj,t?qt intend to deal^Wit^n ."_tjijE^ sw jjjeqtip* a Bp\ which, is 1 'being prepared for f he pr*rei». ? tioifofHhe in^ditetioii and^p'rea\i:bf JdUease^pests;""*: .-- !?T '..;. : ]ii '■ .'• . v , I Melboubne, Awilj?6;M A colhsioir i has tak^n^placo" at the Footscray railwaylstatioff,,when an en«m^ and van dashed into the' centre of a goods > train, striking it. at, right angles. ; A number ot the waggons. were smashed. ' upland the guurd. who^was, in t the van,* 1 was severely' SUaken." . . , • » 1 A signalman named ' Couch, on j the Kensington railway, was run over by the train to-day, and his b&ij hornbly mutii tfaWd. j;vjoi . . , . .:.'-;:a.-5-f,f «>> ' Slavin's . backers offer- ta n>back' him : against Burke for I&00. *-»ido. ■>*; '■ "-■ > i The prospftotus, c bas _ v &s** iwaed of a ! , new bank, cal}^d the ; JRpyai f ßaak of Austrslttsia. TBe «M>itai. has been fixed at The vintage this jeir is' eicpjlent, and it is compi/ted that 'the •jleld will be 1 140,000 gallonsofwine^ %fc &■ "-•; 1 i>*'T :Bbib*aSX> April 26. H-M.S. Lizard stranded on ,a reef 95 miles north of/Cooktpw,n, bat no -further jpar^icuUrsjire to h»adj s :, >7{! *"^ n .. v ;'j ! Abraham Street, the confidential sclerk to a wellakaowa.'Wbplesajie.nrm,' -was today committed " fdr^irfar a^tf 5 twenty charges of embeMling^Mbtfejfe; 3 th^propertyof hit empiloverers! f Thi amount UnvolTed ia-'aaid to be severi¥ thbainnds.