AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 135, 13 April 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Bl#etnc Telegraph.—Copyright Per Pr##s Association. Received 0.45 s.m. Sydney. April 12. Sailed—i alum for Auckland. There has been a considerable exodus . from th* original diggings at Wyalong j to the new rush, where thereof can be traced for some distance on surface and the specimen* show splendid gold. Mri.hoi rn». April 12. Mr W H 11 ay ter. (tov.rnincnt l •uiti.t m hi. c.r.»l nlurns. which ar< just issued. place, the wheat yield at ’ 15,051.000 bu.he!«. or an of 10..H9 bushel, perarr* . oata. 4.9.H4.0U0 hosbels. malting harley, 776.000 buah. lt: otberbarlry. 14-.000 bushel: ! potato*,. 144 000 tons : hay. 602.000 ton*. Upon .b* whole 1»«t vaeon's frora w-re of c*ood qnalit K.eeiw.l 11 1-, a.as » Tin. I*.iy tin*) a- * lull.» >.w*.i -i k n.ii. i. •.ihbbe

said th** Government would meet the New Pariiaiin ill about the end of June. He recognised th** pf»*s**nt H< us»* wa unfit to coa*l'ict tb bu-un *ss of the c mu try anil he hid carrjud on in a House in which he had no confidence. Hobart, This Day.

Following is the personnel of the new Ministry Pr**mi» r vwithout any otln*r portfolio). Sir K. C. N. Braddon : Treasurer. Mr I*. C. Fish ; AttorneyGeneral, Mr A. T. Clark* ; Minisn-r of Loans and Works, Mr A. T. P**lling. r; Minister without portfolio, Mr Li«*hy. Mr Fish, who represent a Buckingham in the Legislative Council, comes down to the Legislative Assembly, changing plac*.« with Mr Hamilton. The Ministry is regarded as the strongest that has held office in Tasmania for years. Received 11.30 a.in. Sydney, This Day.

The report of the Labor Hunan I show that during thi pout six mouth* I eight thousand men w»*n sc nt into tli country to fossick for gold, and the city hail lieen marly cleared of unemployed. About £4,000 had b *en r. funded by men whom the Hunan had assisted. Melbourne, This day. An application was mad* yesterday for th** removal of Priestly, lau • manager of thu Fedc ral Hank, from ■ the position of liquidator in the estaU . Priestly's evidence shows that eleven thousand pounds had been tak- n frntn h* suspense account to buy th* hank's own shares in oidtr to chick the falling market. No one suggested that such a procedure was illegal. His ilocior remarked: “ I will tell you honestly that my view is that the i transaction was illegal, and it is a question whether it was not also highly fraudleiit.” A rich patch of gold was struck at Daylesford. Two hundred ounces of the precious in* tul was taken from a piece of ground less than 2ft square. Most of the gold was in a lump clustered together like a bunch of grapes. One piece weighed thirty ounces. Received noon. Melbourne, This day. Mr D. Elder, general manager of the N.Z.L. and M. Agency Company i in Australia, writes to the press, re ; minding his fri« nds that the Court at . present sitting in London is not yot | in possession of all the facts of the ca*»< and asking them to suspend judgment in matters where his name is mentioned until the examination is concluded, lie says, if necessary, he can make such explanation as will show the real facts and h« can justify every one of hin actions that have been called into question by the Court. The well-known race horse Titan expired after a fast gallop at Ballarat.