AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Bjf ELEOTBIO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. PEB PBKSS ASSOCIATION. DR. FIASCHI'S DEATH. Sydney. AftHl 26. Dr. Fiaschi's death was due to having taken accidentally ■an 'overdose of morphia. (Received April 27, 9 a.m.) A GLUT IN MEAT. Sydney, April. 27. As the outcome of the unprecedentedly favourable season, the meat works are unable to find accommodation for all the meat that is coming forward. They complain of a shortago in tonnage and refrigerated space, .which is almost unobtainable. The congestion is attributed to the large arrival of rabbits. At the present time between three million and four million rabbits are stored in Sydney. SAVED FROM A WRECK". The Lascar crew of the steamer Satara, which foundered off the Seal Rocks, on the New South Wales coast, on April 19, has been sent to Singapore. A. PROSPEROUS FIRM. Advices have been ' received from Messrs Houkler Bros, stating that they are doubling the size of their fleet for the Australian contract, and 'have signed for ten new 10,000-ton steamers. SOME , LATE NEWS. Sydney, April 27. Four more plague rats have been found in the same locality in the city during the last few days. The Rev. Mr Cowling has received a letter from his brother, who is a missionary in China, written just prior to the outbreak of the troubles at Changsha. He stated that the outlook then was bad. Floods had destroyed a great part of the rice crop, and the officials were corrupt. Soldiers the trouble owing to the officials keeping back their pay. Ninety-two cases of typhoid were traced to one milk depot in Filzroy, near Melbourne. During the storm at Melbourne the roof of a house collapsed and eignt inmates had a miraculous escape. At the Infectious Diseases Hospital many of the patients were in tents, which were torn to pieces and the patients almost smothered in the debris. The timber merchants of Melbourne have declined the timber sorters' proposals for a settlement of the strike. The protracted drought in Tasmania has broken, but the rain is too late in many parts for the season's ploughing and sowing.