AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 123, 14 March 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By F.ioctna Telegraph —Copyright. (Pu Ptctv Association.) Received 10 p.m. Hobart. March 13. ! Th# I.anneesioi Town Council has sc cepiod the tender of Messrs Siemens and j C > for lighting the town by electricity. , pRKrn. March 13. j Rease'.r.ng news has been received con c#rmng the water supply on the Coolgardie j goldfields. A large number of men have left for Kumalpe the scene of the new rush, where nog-eta ranging from thirty 1 mree to fifty oun#c# m weigu'.*nav# oeen packed up. Several large nuggets which | have come in from this field are retpon . eible to a great extent for the rush to the lorah tv Reports have been received of j a nch alluvial tind three hundred miles north w#*t of Coolgardie. but it is impos «ble to reach there until summer breaks , np. A parts of diggers returning from Murchison goldfield were attacked by 1 blacks The digger*, however, made a successful defence, only one of their rum her being speared Received 1 am Stdxby. March 13. A scene occurred at to day * session of j the Presbyterian Assembly. and caused great commotion. A long standing dis pate between two rival churches m one of the suburbs came before the Assembly, j and the supporter of one section made an | insinuation against th# minuter of the j other rh eh. The minister who con • Irred himsalf aggrieved, marched up the ( aisle to the Moderator'* < hair, crying out ** It s a lying scandal, and defied the Assembly Eventually, however, the ; trcubl# so amicably settled and the j matter dropped Received 11.50 a m Melbourne. This day. j Richard so r > Rl Nathalie j were destroyed by fire. The loss is /12.000 The insurance is believed to bv x:«ooo A valuable discovery of quicksilver u reported in Alexandria district. Prbtb. This day. There i* great scarcity of provisions at Coolgardie Flour is unobtainable at £6 per fifty lb bag. Camel teams charge £6O to £7O per ion carnage The supposed case of small-pox turn* out lo be severe chicken pox.