AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FLOODS IX LAUNCESTON. (PKU PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Hokakt, This Day. The low lying parts of Lnuncesfon are submerged. Inveresk is inundated and the people nre Jpnving their residences. Three hundred from the latter suburb have taken refuge in Albert Hall. The floods arc receding. " Port Dab win, July 22. The whole of the Chinese 'quarter in the town has been destroyed by fire. The origin is unknown. The Chinese are heavy sufferers. Mklbourne, July 21. Mr J. Munro, ex Agent-General, has been granted an unconditional discharge in bankruptcy. Owing to depreciation in values. Munro's estate is not expected to pay more than a shilling in the pound. There is strong opposition in business circles to the new taxation proposed by the Government. Stone v, This Day. There is great distress among the Northern colliers and various lodges propose to levy from those in employment to asaist those out of work. Brisbane, July 21. A man named Partridge, a miner at Croydon, has fallen heir to tbe sum of LIOO.OOO through the death of relatives in England. It 18 understood a proposal to change the constitution of the Upper House is under consideration. It is Delieved the Government is in favor of an elective rather than a nominee house,