AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 163, 18 June 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Pre» Association.) Received boob. Short of Provisions. Sydney, This Dny. The barque Freetrader, bound from the Thames to Warnambool, put into the harbor last night short of provisions consequent on a protracted passage. Mr Glassey Re-elected. Brisbanb, This Day. Mr T. Glassey, a former labor leader, has bsen elected to represent Burke, in the Legislative Assembly. The Tasmanian Exhibition. Hobart, This Day. The Tasmanian Exhibition opens on November 15th. Mutiny on the High Seas. Adelaid*, This Day. Owing to a mutiny breaking out among the crew of the ship Chittagong, bound from Bankok to Callao, the master of the vessel was compelled to go off his course and put into Adelaide for police assistance. The crew is composed of British seamen. Plague in Hong Kong. Sydney, This Day. Newspapers to hand give deplorable accounts of the ravages of the plague and contain graphic descriptions of the terrible scenes which are witnessed. Received 11.15 a.m. Parkes’ Opinion. Sydney, This Day. Sir Henry Parkes says Sir G. Dibbs’ federation scheme is so utterly ridiculous that he has not bestowed attention upon it, and he believes other colonies will have nothing to do with it. A Tragic Sequel. Sydnky, Thi« Day. A tragic sequel to a love affair happened in one of the streets of the city yesterday, when a woman named Esther Levi drew a knife on a man named Curley and inflicted a deep gash on bis throat. Curley had promised to marry the woman but afterwards discarded her. The wound is a severe one and he is in a precarious condition. Penny Postage. Melbourne, This Day. Premier Patterson has eommunicated with the other colonies stating that if they concurred he would cable to Mr Henniker Heaton announcing there was no objection in the colonics to the establishment of a penny postage system between England and Australia. Death of Sir J. C. Bray. Adelaide, June 17. A telegram from Colombo announces the death at sea of Sir J. C. Bray, late Agent-General for the colony in London, who was recently relieved from the duties of the ©ffice ou account of ill-health. He was born in East Adelaide in 1842.