AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 967, 12 June 1883, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

’MsiBotJEKB, June 6. Great are afoot for the banquet on the 15th in ,celebration of the junction of the railway systems of Victoria and New South Wales at Albury. , The small boat-in 1 which' Mr Bernard .Oilboy made the voyage fromSSn Francisco to Queensland is ( now.,exhibite,d by Oilboy in Melbourne/ The. boat Js.oply • 15ft ‘ , V Mr Bobart- of ’ Eaglohawk, had » ,-on . Saturday night last. During a fog he fell down, a shaft 30ft de^plbhtiinin^'l2fl‘of water/ 'Forfnnntalfe the shaft: was bn to lifeline. He managed to support himself until morning, when he. was.- rescued by a .person, who heard hW'crftifi. ,v ‘ ' It is stated that the work of eradicating phylloxera has not been properly carried .out, and that disease still exists in infected* districts. A It has been'decided'to institute farther proceedings Griffin, who obtainetj moimy from tlje friends,, of. Professor representing' herself as hia daughter, and wishing to asH'st'her brothe«Jp. NpW.vßealadd- ' . A Chinaman named Ah Young s was found murdered,: bis head waa cut open in his o6ni' noute in Little Bourke street. The bouse is the resort of loose characters of both’seS&a% ': , -_-' ! * - ■ / A movement is on foot to establish an Ambulance Association branch of St John’s Ambulance, with the object of disseminating elembdcary surgical knowledge »ml the treatment of accidents when medical aid la not at hand, . Sydksy, June 6. The sijiJhf Law v. ''Brown and another was commenced at the Supreme Court on Monday. Law, formerly manager of the Bank of New Zealand sues J. and A. Brown, for wrpngr fnl dumiafiO. 1 -’He knegSb he was engaged is manager for seven years at L 2,000 per annum, and waa dismissed before the end of one year. The case is likely, to last a «'* - 1 * t ' ' The electric light «t South . Head lighthouse is a'i£fc&t Wi&ter? it is visible for i 1 H- a -J a