Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 66, 13 July 1896, Page 4

Late Australian News.

[Evening Tost.] Whales are very numerous in the vicinity of the Clarence Heads, New South Wales, and are to be seen quite close to the shore. The area under wheat this season in New South Wales is estimated at 155,000 acres above that of last year. Sir Joseph Abbott has been installed as Grand Master of the Masonic United Grand Lodge of New South Wales. A series of provision* are embodied in the Bew Factories Bill of New South Wales which make it an early-closing Bill also. The Postmaster-General at Perth recommends that female telephone operators should be repLic *<l In malts. A scarcity of c.trp- n:-.i i- ivported from Kalgoorlie, West Australia. There are now 25 Christian societies in the Australasian Universities, as against five existing formerly. Mr Bruce, the Chief Inspector of Stock of New South Wales, has returned from Queensland, where he has been, investigating the tick plague. The tick has, .Mr Brace thinks, become permanent in Queensland, but he believes that its progress south can be prevented by thorough and repeated dipping. The Carlisle rush, near Condobolin, New South Wales, still attracts attention, and the poprH*i~i ; • increasing at the rate of 6<) < r 70 a week. A township has been ' in* 1 out. Mrs Margaret Lixity one of the pioneer selectors on the Namoi, N.S.W., has gone over to the majority. She was 110 years of age at the time of her death. A report from Menzies, (W.A.) states that an enormous outcrop has been discovered 80 miles east of Pendinnie, carrying gold. The South Australian Commissioner for Lands has stated that an application had been received to lease 70,300 square miles, and that there was a likelihood of a satisfactory arrangement being made. The Premier of Queensland says thai the question of Federation involves so many details that it will be impossible to get a referendum vote on it. Imports of breadstuffs for the last half - year into New South Wales totalled 1,647,000 bushels of wheat and 27,570 tons of flour, valued at £SOOO, the bulk of which came from America. A mine manager at Kalgoorlie was recently robbed of £B6, having been first knocked insensible. The robbers mistook him for another mine ; manager, who passed along the road a few minutes later with £B6O. A stockowner of the Upper Murray, J. Drummond, has been fined £l5O for crossing 800 sheep into Victoria without having paid the duty, and he has been ordered to pay £Bo* duty. Lord Hampden says the Australian press is admirably conducted. The Governor declares the press thinks more of producing facts than of the literary 'style in which they are produced. A mff Henry dropped dead bexing match at St

The other day Earnest Nicholson, f was killed by a swing-boat, at C?lli:i .wood, New South Wales. A man's body was found in Palmer's paddock, near Nathalia, Victoria, with the throat" cut. The body of a man, supposed to bs named "Wilson, has been found on a large rock near the shore at Esperauce, West Australia. Dr. Quaife has given £'loo to the Sydney Hospital to get an apparatus to produce the Rcmtgen rays in cases of human injury and disease. At the Central Court, Sydney, Margarot Hall, an elderly woman, was fined £2O or six months' imprisonment, for fraudulently appropriating in connection with a registry office transaction. At the Benevolent Asylum at Sydney, relief was extended recently to 1,000 persons, representing about 8,500 widows, orphans, and individuals in indigent circumstances.