AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph — Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
September 30, at noon. 55 Y Wf EY > September 20. The National Art) Gallery has purchased a flower painting by Miss Stoddart, a Now Zealand arbist. The Legislative Assembly ha* agreed to a motion in favor of amending the Electoral Act by reinstating the provision for a LiO doposib by car.didate« seeking Parliamentary honors. A good alluvial gold discovery is reported 00 miles from Wyalong. The stone is mingled with nuggets. Tin ore, yielding 83 por cent of pure tin, has also been discovered. Arrived — Port Molbourne, steamer, from Lyttelton, on route to India. Melbourne, Septembor 20. Tito Natal Queen, which has arrived from the Thames, New Zealand, had a most tempestuous voyage, and was under water nearly the whole way across. Thore is a great flood in tha Hope* town district, and largo areas of crop are under water. An analysis of the candidates for tho general election shows thab there are 92 who favor tariff reform, 30 in favor of a revision of tho tariff, whilo 53 support a high tariff. A despatch received from tho Secretary of State for tho Colonies, in connection with separation of the Goverumont, states that in view ojf tbo commercial and financial position of fcha colouy tho time is inopporfeuuo for a division. Brisbane, September 20. The burning of the shed at Morstone Downs is not attributed to tfye shearers on strike, but to men ordered o$ the sbntion. Received September 20, at 7.30 p.m. JSydnkV, {September 20. A sorions railway collision occurred be~ tweon Waratah and Islington on the northern line to-day, A goods train ran into another composed of empty cattle trucks. Robertson, tho firemnn on tho former, was killed instantly. Tho driver (Gou'ins) i« in a critical condition. Tho gunrd and ?3sist^nt woro b-idly injured. Tho stock train Wag stationary at the time, and tho driver was busy oiling the locomotive The guard, seeing tho ofchos train approaching, wn to give warning, but; too lite. Coming on at the rate of 10 to 18 miles an hour it dashed into the rjaajr of tho trucks, and besides the loss of life a' largo amount of daraago waa in* flictod in rolling stock. The alleged cause of the aacidont "mm $ ,disrog-ud of aiguals. '
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8082, 21 September 1894, Page 2
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382AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph — Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8082, 21 September 1894, Page 2
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