AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 124, 16 March 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Cy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) Received 1 am. Sydney. March 15. Quartz taken from the new field at Wylong has furnished very satisfactory crushing*. Freeh discoveries arc being made daily. The cable steamer. Sherard Osborne, has left to engage in the work of overhauling part of the La Perouse-W'akapuaka cable. Brisbane. March 15. The schooner Grace Darling was u recked at Moreton Island during a heavy gale. The crew were saved.

The weather is still boisterous and wet. Received noon. Sydney, This day. Sternchascr is scratched for all engagements at forthcoming race*. Heavy rains caused the floods at Lismore. which is partly inundated, but the water is now receding. A man named Dupont was drowned. The steam tr Electra, which went ashore at Manning river during a heavy gale has been floats \ off. In the Legislative Assembly the military estimates amounting to £182,090 were re duced by £3OOO. and the item passed. The subsidy of £IO.OOO to the Vancouver mail service passed with but little discussion. The Pastorahsts Union is introducing a new agreement with the shearers. It is believed it will be drawn on lines similar to that in operation in Queensland, and be more favorable to the men. Newcastle, This day. Sailed, yesterday—Taieri, for Wellington. Brisbane. This day. The weather has cleared and fears of another flood have passed away. Nearly five inches of rain fell in thirty-six hours.