AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9951, 12 March 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Adelaide, March 10. Further letters have been received from tha settlers at the " N"..-w Australia"' settlement in Paraguay. They describe the recent ejection of several members for breaking the rules as resembling in many respects an Irish eviction. Subsequent to evictions a official notice was po3tfd, intinating that families desirious of leaving the settlement would be allowed £6 5s for man and wife, halfthat amount for each children, and single men would receive £4 165. Fifteen married couples and seventeen single men accepted the offer, and removed their belongings from the settlement. The people who loft had paid in about £1600, and on leaving received some thing under £300. Those person 3 who left tne settlement, numbering in all about eighty-one, are now assembled nt Villa Rica, and have to lay their situation before the British Counsel. Melbourne, March 9. The Premier is opposed to tho penny ocean postage, and thinks 2^d reasonable enough. The proposed reduction will only increase the subsidies alread/ paid by the colonies. Mr Justice Mole3worth, Judge of the Court of Insolvency, refused an application for the release of a bankrupt estate, in which the liabilities amounted to £118,000, and the creditors had to accept a dividend of halfpenny i. the £. His Honor said he would like to see a law passed to prevent a man obtaining his clearance when such a small dividend was paid until six years had elapsed. Sydney, March 10. The sable repairing steamer herard Osborne arrives here to-morrow en route to New Zealand. Arrived : Mararoa, from Auckland. Brisbane, March 10. The barque William Manson, rpgarding whose safety there has been consider able anxiety, owing to the fact that she had two hundred coloured recuits on board, has arrived safely. Hobart, March 10. A serious fracas occurred at West Devonport respecting the possession of a Church building. Pastor Rev. Mr Hfgers was lighting up the Church, when three men entered and forcibly ejected him. The rev. gentleman was severely handled by the assailants. The pastor collected his congregation, who attacked the Church with stones, and drove out the enemy. Pbbth, March 10. A half-caste aboriginal girl has been found suffering from small-pox.