AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1276, 10 June 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, June 4. Some little excitement has been caused by a reported oase of smallpox. A man named Barker, lately arrived from Tasmania, was found to be suffering from a and the doctors are at variance whether.it is veritable smallpox or chicken pox. Meanwhile ihe patient is isolated at the samtorium, and his effects have been burned. . . Great preparations are being made fer the exhibition of rowing by Hanlan on the Albert Park Lake next Saturday. An Austrian named Suttorn, who was being conveyed from Adelaide to Sydney to answer a charge of murder, seized the moment when the constable’s attention was diverted and jumped overboard. Boats were lowered, but were unable to find him. •Mwrgan, the man under sentence of death for the Panmnre murder, has made a fult confession of his guilt. - He said be had several drinks, and must have been maddened by them. He says that the girl made such a resistance that he killed her outright. The Sandhurst mining returns for May show a decided improvement, Sydney, June 4. Bishop Barry has'exciied the ire of the total abstainers by expressing the opinion that a moderate use of stimulants is allowable.

The application for the release of “o lunatic Cresswell from the Parramatta * Asylum on the ground that ho is Arthur Orton ie again adjourned. Efforts are being made to accord a fitting reception to Archbishop Moran on his arrival. • Information has'been received from the San Franoisco police authoritiea that the dynamite party intend to send emissaries to Australia. Steamers arriving from America will ■ be subjected to strict examination, and the public buildings will be carefully . {guarded. At the race meeting on Saturday Jessie won the Birthday Cup. Archbishop Meran on bis arrival will be the guest of Governor Loftus at Government House. Information has been received by the Government of a threatened invasion of dynamite emissaries from America. Some i .tune since a San Francisco detective of - . polje* oonuaanioated to the authorities of this colony certain information to the B effect;that the dynamite party contemplated iespatehing emissaries from Arneriba, s afid subsequent communications have confirmed the information. The ' matte# waaodb rider ed at a meeting of the - flabiaet yesterday, when specific instruc > c tfpsne were given to the Inspector-General ,'i Of? Police to have the public buildings Specially'‘protected, and also a strict in- . vestigation of the American mail steamers willb*made. Brisbane, June 4. on '* T “ it to H -||fi|fofctbiro,and this northern pacta. steiunersAroher and Taldara lately pbllision In the Brisbane river. s good deal damaged, bnt no occurred to those aboard. Agent-General, isfreoover- £*•