Australian News.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 169, 3 February 1888, Page 3

Australian News.

Sydney. January 81

Two of the Enelrade candidates for the Newtown sat have retired from the r 'iite-t. thus leaving it to be fought one c.indidati from each M, The Ere* ir.iders expect to win easily. Lxteiisivu gras* and bush fires have ore irred in U;e Wafgs and Advuca d -in> t». and thousands of acres have iieeu devastated. February 1. The Wesleyan Conference have p*.--. I a r« duUon affirming their ini . :i i \\ e.-lryau* a! I c a. <nd d. dining to withdraw from tin island-. The resoluvon further n il.i- intention of the-Conference to re app ' lit tl.e IteV. Mr Moulton to M A peculiar accident is reported from Hraii.v. A man while drinking at a water hole near tliere swallowed a anake. and died from suffocation. i i.. Is .due;. K veiling News declares .t if the facts of the Mount Ueimie . rage w.-re to lie reviewed it would r .It in the certain release of two of the prisoners. The Wanton at Tenterfield lias furnsi.id a rep rt <>n the recent find of silver at Fairfield, in winch he states that an MHM .s .piantity of sdver <>re is visible, and that there is no r> i ii to Is lieve that the first estimate of t.,e yield i» in any way exaggerated. The rupture which took place bet*ini *i vi ral Masonic Ixslges in this « ui i :i- in. ii healed liirouglithe efforts « f the Lari of t'aniarxon and Lord Camng ton. The four constitutions hart- amalgamated and Lord Carrington ha* been instilled first Grand Master. Lord Carnarvon has giv. nan u—urance that the Knghsh Grand 1 dge will consent to the step taken. Aiirximt. February 1.

One hundred nuts found on the ii.Ttbem diamond fields have been sold in Ismdon at i "2 jut carat. Perth. February 1.

A desperate affair is reported to have taU n pla. •• bet Wee u the crews of some I* i:;n . v. >-.•!* in Shark Hay, by which two uiiu were kilhd and a number slabbed. No particulars of the affair are (o hand, hut seven Manilla men Lave been arrested by the police. Meijmii a.NK. January HI.

Efforts are to be made by the Victunau l'ostal IVpartun-nt to induce N> w Zealand to join with the other co >iu«* in inaugurating an intercolonial pus' card ay stem. This is intended as a preparatory step to the proposed establishment of an Australasian twopenny post card system with Great Britain.

A fire broke out this raoruing in Messrs Ferguson and Cries’ glass factory, situate on the banks of the A arm. Tiie factory was completely destroyed togctiicr with M-veral adjoining buildings, the fire burning fur some hours. The damage is estimated at A'JiI.OOO, and the insurance* amount to A'IOUU.

The silver mama here is now subsiding. Mr G. F\ Thureau, Inspector of Mines and Geological Surveyor of Tasmania. lias inspected the liroken Hill country, and reports that the formation is t'-emuig with silver of high value. There is also a considerable *|iot of native silver, and the geological evntouce is very favorable for the extension of the works. Mr Thureau goes on to say that from what he lias ets-n underground tin* metalliferous i>e!t Till, if properly worked and maiiag si. become one of the permanent * iurcea of the wealth of the colonies interested.

February 1. The Weslevan Jubilee fund here ha* ri allied HSiI.OOO.

A great sensation lias Iwn caused circle* by a report received from tlie manager of Jackson’s mine, Kimberley, to the effect that the mine is not of tlie slightest value. The capital of the company formed to take over (lie nine is *1:40.000. and was prill-

o jwdly subscribed here. Legal pro ... dings have been threatened over the affair. Ancnains. January 81. The Daly river (Northern Territory) Sugar Plantation Company are negotiating for the introduction of fiftv agricultural Chinese families to work on their station in the Northern Territory . The laud is unworkable under ordinary conditions.