AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 107, 5 February 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received 6.30 a.m. Sydney, February 4. Sailed—Saturday, TVairarapa, for Auckland. Th# Government haa decided to offer XIOOO bonus for the discover? of a payable alluvial gold field. Mr Bruce, Chief Inspector of Stock, who is at present in England, has been instructed to prolong his stay in order to obtain all possible information likely to aid in the opening up of fresh markets for preserved meats, butter, fruit, aud other products. Melbourne. February 4. It is understood tnat when the Mercantile Bank crisis begins on the 19th Sir M. I.’avies will conduct his own defence and that Mr Gaunson will appear for MiUidge. Received noon. Sydney, This day. It is understood H.M.S. Goldfinch will leave for Samoa shortly, her visit being due to the critical position of affairs there. It is probable the out corno of the visit will be a general disarming of the natives in all part a of the group. Newcastle, This day. The Timaru Harbor Board’s dredge No. 404 has arrived here, en route to Timaru. Captain Robertson is very ill with dropey, and has been taken ashore. The Chief Officer has also been taken to the hospital suffering from Java fever. The efforts of the miners to induce the surface men and shift men in Stockton colliery to throw the mine idle have proved futile. The latter remember when their wages were recently reduced ten per cent that the miners looked on with indifference and made no attempt to aid them to resist the reduction. Brisbane, This day. One of the search steamers has returned io Nonnanton without any tidings an to the missing boat belonging to the Kunahooka. which foundered in the Gulf of ( arpentoria. Perth, This day. At the new find in Bailey’s Reward claim at Coolgardie three hundred ounce.were taken out in two hours, The gold is exceedingly inaaaivo, and at times was cut out with a chisel.