AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 103, 21 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegrapii.^Cppyright (PE.R UNITJBDPRKSS ASSOCIATION^ | . Sydney, February 20. Bradley, mahageri of Devonshire street branch of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank has absconded. His.defalcations are believed to be very heavy.; A hitch has occurred in the election of Canon Barlow of Tdwrisville; to the Bishopric of North Queensland^ It is uuder r stood that some of the A.UBtralian;Bishops object to Conon Barlow's election on'theground that he has not studied at or been associated with any of the English Universities. ThiaDay.; A bookmaker named Saville' has been arrested on the charge of being eon cerned m a robbery of bank notes to the amount of £2600 from an Adelaide stock broker. The alleged offence was committed a year ago. Dr Wilson commences operations with the Koch tuberculine in the Sydney Hospi .al on Monday. iVJ BLBOtTBKE, February 20. . The news of the failure of Watson and Sons, merchants, created a sensation in business circles here. The failure is believed to be due to bad debts contract d in Melbourne. Tnese have been accurring since the burst of the land boom and were considerably increased by the late', strike. From unofficial but trustworthy advices lately received by members of the military staff here froiri India, it appears that the Russians are collecting transports near Herat in far larger, quantities than they receive credit for. The AngloEussian situation is considered to be seriously affecced by this move, and the s igge.stion is made that an ■; Australian coutingent might bs sent to render ..Bdistance in the event of war breaking out in Afghanistsu. Another proposal is thatau Australian brgade should be sent to attend the great military camp which is to be held at Delhi next year* ' : Bkisban e, February 20. A-battery of permanent force is under

orders to proceed to Clereinont. Ifc Is i believed that the firm action taken by i Government to maintain law and order has i somewhat non-plnssed the Unionists^ Ti; i police have captured a large quantity i. : ! ammunition in possession of the Union - istß. • : The Government has-- received a telaI gram from Cleremonfc that a serious outbreak between Union and non-Union shearers is imminent, and a battery of ; artillery and mounted infantry has been despatched to the scene. Perth, February 20* The two Houses are in conflict in consequence of an attempt by the Legislative Council to assume the right to amend a. money Bill. This Day. The difficulty between the Wo Houses of Parliament has been satisfactorily arranged. Hobart, February 20. The R.M.S Aorangi arrived from Lon- -- don via Cape at 7 o'clock thii morning, a*id leaves a^ain for Wellington at 5 o'clock this afternoon;