AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10418, 16 April 1897, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press Association.-ElsctricTofegraph.-CopTrigut NEW SOUTH WALES AGENTGENERALSHIP. Sidney, April 15. Ministers state there is no foundation for the Adelaide rumour linking the names of Messrs. Reid and Brunker .for the Agent* Generalship. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. Sydney, April 15. The Austrian scientific expedition to tht Solomon Islands, which was interrupted • by the massacre of Baron Norbeck, will nob be abandoned. Doctor Mann has arrived to take up Norbeck's work, and the cruiser Albatross leaves for the Solomons in a few days. MELBOURNE JUBILEE HOSPITAL. Melbourne, April 15. Over £6000 have already been subscribed for the Jubilee Fever Hospital. BRISBANE EXHIBITION. Brisbane, April 15. The New Zealand Government have secured 840 feet of space for the International Exhibition at a cost of £400. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. Melbourne, April 15. Robertson, charged with embezzling cer« tain sums belonging to the Colonial Mutual Insurance Company, has been committed for trial. FIRE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 15. A fire at Berrigan destroyed eight shops. I GOLD YIELD.

Sydney, April 15. The gold yield of New South Wales for last quarter was 63,600 ounces, ten thousand ounces below last year's quarterly averages, THE BOTHVVELL CASTLE FIRE Adelaide, April 15. The owners of the Bothwoll Castle have presented the officers and the whole of the crew with new uniforms in recognition of their exemplary conduct during the fire. ROWING. Melbourne, April 15. The Governor presided at a meeting of rowing men. at which it was decided to send an Australian eight-oared crow to compete at the Henley regatta in July. Sydnky, April 15. The New South Wales Rowing Association have decided not to send an eight-oar crew to Melbourne to compete at the forthcoming race unless the Victorian Rowing Association gives an assurance that the race will be held under the amateur definition adopted at the conference held in Sydney last year. The Association favoured sending an Australian eight to compete al .Henley, bub decided it was too late to get training this year.