AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 117, 15 November 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

« . THE DESPERATE STRAITS OF MELBOURNE. THE TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. (peb pbEßs association!. Sydney. November 14. Sir G. Gibbs has received a cable message from the United Stntes to the effect that tho New South Wales uold exhibits seized at the instigation of Sell Bros, hare been released. Expert* declare the coal Found at Cremore, at Port Jackson, of excellent quality and express the opinion that the discovery will open up a grent industry in the district. Out of a call amounting to L 153.000, which was made on the oontributories in the Anglo-Australian Bunk, only £620 have been paid. The assets of the bank simply amount to £40,000 with which to meet debts amounting to £400,000. The Judge declined to make an order for a second call until information was forth", coming that there is a reasonable hope of the levy being paid. He said that if be made the order in the present condition of things, it would only result in the waste of what little assets there were in law costs. A warning letter has been received by a resident of Broken Hill with reference to the state of affaire in Paraguay, where the New Australian colony was recently established. He felt it his duty to write to Australia to prevent, if possible, the misery and suffering that would mevit ably result if bands of Australian colon" ists weut there. This Day, In connection with the fever outbreak at the Benevolent Asylum, the medioal staff have resigned, as they consider they were slighted by the failure of the Board to follow their advice, The Marine Bpard has investigated the statements made by the crew of the Louisa Massel, to the effect that the Captain and the mate had attempted to scuttle her between Newcastle and Sydney, and declare them to be utterly unfounded. The Redfern totahsator proprietors were mulcted in fines ranging from £20 to £40. Melboubne, This Day. In the Mercantile Bank cases Sir M. Davies addressing the Bench on his own behalf, emphatically protested his innocence and contended the case had utterly broken down. The statements made by Turner re« specting the dissension among the members of the Australian cricket team when in England will be investigated at a meeting of the Cricket Council in December. In moving tbe adoption of the report of the select committee set up to enquire into the working of the Labour Bureau, Mr Fitzgerald said the committee had decided that the institption bad been a failure. Hobabt, This Day. It is rumoured that the Ministry is divided on the policy of the Government party at the coming general elections. Messrs Dobson, Moore, and Douglas, are believed to favpr a Conservative course, while Messrs Hartnell, Lewis, and Henry, support Liberal measures and a graduated land tax. _____^^_________