THE COLLAPSE OF NEW AUSTRALIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 30 March 1894, Page 2

THE COLLAPSE OF NEW AUSTRALIA.

[By Electbic Telegraph— Copyright.] [Pkr United Press Association ] Sydney, March 29. Sir G. R. Dibbs, replying to a question in the house, said he was making enquiry into tho condition of the New Australian scheme in Paraguay, and had already authorised the Agent-General in London to expend several hundreds of pounds, if necessary, to pay people's passages ba3k to Australia. A "Seceder fron New Australia" writes to one of the papers here to say that lie left the settlement without falling out with anyone, Tho truth was that he saw trouble brewing in the community. Lane, he says, has his hults, and, in a thing like New Australia, it was a big fault that he was not a leader of men and could not keep people together. No man, however, lives who wants to do more for bis fellow men than Lane. Biusbane, March 29. A New Australian, writing to his relatives hero, says that ever since the settlement was initiated there have been ncthing but rows and quarrels, One or two wanted to run the show, but half tho people objected, so it ended in Lane expelling three, who were asking questions about things. The statement that the men had been drinking was only an excuse to get rid of them,