AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 120, 7 March 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

Per Press Association. Received 1.80 a.m. Melbourne. March 6. Three horses fell in the Bourke Ilandi cap. the last race of the day. McGowan, the rider of Linburn, received a fearful fracture of the skull, and expired im mediately afterwards. Button, who rode he winner of the Australian Cop and had the mount ou the winner of the principal in this race, also sustained serious in juries. Sydney, March 6. Clark was sentenced to five years for frauds on the National Bank. Heavy floods in northern rivers have caused great damage to corn crops. The greater part of Kempsev v» under water. The Rev. Mr Mclnnis has been elected Moderator of the Presbyterisn Assembly. Hie address dealt entirely with the subje* t of the inspiration of the bible, and aimed ao severe a blow at orthodox tents that one member was impelled to rise and denounce it as rank heresv. Adelaide, March 6. Heavy floods in the Murray have carried away a railway bridge and inter rnpted traffic. The South Australians closed their second innings at 274, Giffen being not out with 69. Received noon Sydney, This day. Very bad weather is being experienced along the coast. Phenomenal rams have ! fallen around Kempray. the record show mg 8 aud 9 inches for *24 hours. Adelaide, This day. Over two and a half inches of rain fe’l in two hours in townships around the , Murray budge. in tneir second innings, the Victorians have lost three wickets for 2*29. Harry 82. McLeod, not out. 42. not out, 43. Hobart. This day. Sir E. C. Rraddon. Leader of the Op • position, has giveu notice to move that tinfinancial proposals of the Government are unsatisfactory. The debate opeus to day Bribbane. This day. At the Wesleyan Conference, the Rev Mr Payne made serious charges against the whites residing in the far north. He allege* that the blacks were shot down as a nuisance, causing them to tiee to parts where food was scarce, the result being a horrible condition of cannibalism. Received 12.15 p m. Sydney, This Day. TU flood* in the Newcastle district *r

of a serious ch trader, aud relief boats are b ug held m readiness in case of •me geucv. The Hunter, \\ i iiami, nud .’a; ter son river*, art* in high flood. »nd a Is .strous inundation is famed. In many ».«rts of the district people are deserting (hen dwellings. Thursday Island, This dty. Hong Kong n ■ a report the steamer Hangchow co id* d wi li an unknown »t mer. winch sank immediately, no soul n board being saved. \i»ot!ier col ision •curred in the Stnuts of Malacca b* tween wo C’btnese steamers. One iiu n. diate'y. and the other short \ aft rvards, a tola of forty-live lives being lost.