AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 85, 12 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Brisbane, April 11. A new Anglican diocese is to be established in Centnft Queensland. The district will extend from the coast to the inland border. Sydney, April 11. Sailed, Pukaki, for Wellington. It is stated that the duty proposed to bs imposed in England on high olass wines will not affect the wines shipped from Australia. The s.s. Titus, which went ashore at Warnambool, i« insured for £7000. She has not been floated off, The wheat yield this year is slightly over IS bushels to tke acre, as against an average of 14*8 for the l»8t ten y«ars. Mhlbourhb, April 11. The space applied for at the Exhibition is 340,000 feet. The number af feot available under cover is only 243,000, and the Committee have been compelled to reject all applications f»r spaoe for imported machinery. Vignerons have nsktd the permission of the Government to replant their vines, but tie Minister in charge of the Department ] has declined to grant the request, as phylloxera has riot been thoroughly eradicated. The tunnel which it is proposed to driva under the Yarra river will cost £80,000, and it is intended to oonnect South Melbourne and Geelong. Stdnby, April 12. A* underground river has been discovcrod fchiry miles from Braldwood. The cable steamer Sherard Osborne leaves Singapore to morrow for Wellington via Sydney to repair the Oook's Strait oable.