AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 128, 28 March 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(rut Press Association.) Received 1 a.m. Cricket. Sydney, Maroh 27. Tho firm innings of the Now South Wales team was finished for 161, Moses not out 44. (Queensland, in tho second innings, have six wickets down for 182; McfHinchv 40. Freeman, not out, 55, Brady 35. Collision. Sydney, March 27. Another serious collision took place to-night between two ferry steamers. One was so badly injured that she had to be beached to prevent her sinking. Received noon. Sydney, March £B. At a Conference ot Farmers' Associations it was decided to add a protection policy to the platform of the Association. Out of 84 associations only fifteen were represented at the Conference, and another fifteen are known to favor protection. Further communications have been reoeived from New Australia and even the warmest advocates of the colony have to admit the administration in Paraguay has been a failure. The Magistrate at Wyalong has wired to the Government that the ' field is overdone by thousands. There ! arc now ten thousand people on the 1 field, which at present wtll only support fifteen hundred. Men are arriving 1 at the rate of a thousand per day. Memmu-rnf., March 28. Arrived—lndianary, from London.