AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 102, 19 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

«. — : ■ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPER UNITSD PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Melbourne, February 17Serious bush fires are raging in the vicinity of Stawell. One station ha 3 lost 10,000 sheep. Thirty-six thousand sheep perished in a bush fire at Lismore, about 100 miles inland. The damage by the bush fire in the Statrell district is estimated at £30,000. Many of the settlers are completely ruined. .This Day. The Medical Board have decided to bring Dr Koch's consumptive lymph undsr the Poisons Act in order to prevent unqualified persons using it. Adbixide, Thifc Daj. The pastoralists and shearers have arrived at a satisfactory settlement with regard to the new shearing agreement. Sydney, February 17. One party has obtained llozs of gold per load at Peak Hill. In the Great Eastern Mine 300 tons of stuif, when crushed, gave a yield of 3200z5. at a representative meeting of New Zealanders, presided over by Mr Charles O'Neill, formerly of Wellington, it was decided to give Sir George Grey a suitable reception on his arrival here as one of the New Zealand delegates to the Federal Convention. Brisbane, February 17 The yield of gold in Queensland for 1 1890 was 588,147 ozs, which is a decrease of 150,0000zs as compared with the returns for 1889. January 18. Owing to the action, of the Union shearers the squatters ' are arming the free shearers in their employ. Eighty armed police have, been despatched to Kockhampton. The sale of firearms has been forbidden in Clermont. It is expected that the Logan Downs shearing shed will be the scene of the first attack by the Unionists. The publicans at Cleremount threaten to throw their houses open to Unionist laborers free of charge. The authorities haye decided to close all hotels in the district in the event of the trouble becoming more acute. -This Day. Large bodies of Unionists are arriving at Cleremount. They are armed principally with revolvers and .Winchester's. Nearly a thousand. Unionists are encamped in the vicinity of Barcaldine.

To-day Messrs Lowes and Irons advertise a 6tock sale at Boss' yards, Woodville, on Friday, the 27th instant, at two o'clock. The sale is an important one as nearly seven thousand sheep will be offered.