AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1168, 26 April 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT PER PRKSB ABBOOIATION. (Received April 26, 9 a.m.) DEATH OF DR. FIASCHI. ... . Sydney, April 26. Obituary—Dr. Carlo Fiaschi, a leading Sydney doctor. ANOTHER PLAGUE RAT. Another plague rat has been captured in Kent-street. INFERIOR MAIZE. Produce merchants complain that the bulk ol the new maize which is coming to hand is of inferior quality and is m a soft condition. AN EARTHQQUAKE. A distinct shock of eathquake, lasting nve seconds, was felt at Yarranedrie, on Sunday. No damage was done. P. AND 0. STEAMERS. The two new Peninsular and Oriental steamers for the Australian service will be called the Medina and the Maloja. They will be enlarged editions of the Marmora type, and will be fitted with wireless telegraph apparatus. A VALUABLE HORSE. Sir George Clifford has purchased the blood stallion San Francisco. The price is not stated. A NEW JUDGE. Mr Alexander Gordon, K.C., has been appointed to the vacant Supreme Court judgship. MR. O'SULLIVAN DEAD. Obituary—Mr E. W. O'Sullivan, M..L.A. Mr O'Sullivan was a journalist by profession, and for some years edited Freeman's Journal. He was_ first returned to Parliament in 1885,.as member for Qtieanbeyan, and sat uninterruptedly for that district for years. For -the past four years he represented the Helmore division of Sydney. He was Minister for Public Works in the Lyne and See Governments for nearly five Years, and Minister of Lands "in the 'Waddell Government in 1904. BISHOP OF NEW GUINEA. Brisbane, April 25. The Rev. Gerald Sharp has been consecrated Bishop of New Guinea at the Pro-Cathedral. 'Archbishop Donaldson" performed the ceremony. UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME. Melbourne, April 26. The State Cabinet has adopted a scheme for dealing with unemployment whereby all police stations in country districts will be made labour offices.

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