AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1335, 7 September 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

3 Melbourne, August 31. The National Agricultural Show has 3 been the most successful ever hold, but > was marred by a fatal accident, which ■ occurred duriug the tiial of hunters, to a i well-known rough rider named Thomas I Lawless, who, while riding the horse 3 named Surprise, was thrown at a iunao 3 and killed. i Mr Gi lies has taken over the portfolio ’ of Minis er of Mines from Mr Dow, • owing to objections having been raised to ) the administration cf Mines and Lands 5 being in the hands "I the same Minister, 3 The steamer S .Her, the first boat of the 1 North German Lloyd’s new subsidised f line to Australia, has arrived. She brings 8 relief crews for the German men-of-war 1 on 'he Pacific Station. The sttte of the Melbourne Hospital i continues the subject of general discut- : sion. Dr Beaney will move in tbo • Legislative Council tc-day for a Commit--3 sion of Enquiry into the matter. 3 A number of numbers of the South ' Australian Chamber of Manufacturers t are now visiting Melbourne, and : shown the principal industrial works la ' Victoria. Negotiations for the purchase of the Telephone Exchange Company’s business by the Government are still going on, but delayed by the illness of Mr Byron Moore, the managing director of the company. Four cases of death by drowning from the St. Kilda pier have occurred within the last two months, and suspicions of foul play are entertained in quarters. The latest victim, Joseph Beaumont, financier, went oat on Sunday morning with the intention of visiting the hatha. His body was found in the fore* noon, with an abrasion on the head. Wybert Reeve leaves by the Tarawara for New Zealand, with a specially injected company, among them beingja gentleman well known in amateur dramatic circles la Wellington. Hobart, August 31. Discoveries of gold at Mount Lyoll, on the north-west cast, have revived the interest in that district, and there is a small rash, bus pro peering is most difficult and the cost of living very high, owing to the expense of carriage of supplies.