AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1725, 5 December 1887, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Sydney, November 80. Very little progress to being made with pablio business Id the Assembly. Tbo match between Beaoh and Hanlan attracted about seven thousandi persona to the Nepean. The railway arrangements were very defective, and this led m a great measure to the email attendance. It was asserted that Hanlan lead for a abort dlatanoe, bat thlo Beach denies, being very close together, then Beaoh drew away, and from that ont waa never headed. He was strongly pressed by Hanlan all the distance. Beaoh now states his determination to retire, and Peter Kemp having challenged him first will be handed the championship by Beaoh. Kemp will then have to meet all-comers. Although Hanlan admitted that he was fairly beaten. It 1b now asserted that ho thinks he could beat Beaoh if Beaoh would keep on his Bide of the river and not give him the wash of his oara, but from the manner m which the race was won little doubt exists as to the best man. Forty-six designs for the State house haye been sent In, but none of them apparently come within the estimate. The Bum of £116,000 has boon paid to the contractors for the Hawkesbury bridge. The discussion continues over the proposed new name of the colony, and very few are found outside the Government to favor tha proposal. All sorts of names are suggested, but Sir 11, Parkes adheres to that of " Australia," notwithstanding the strong outside the colony. Loverß of tho pugilistic art will shortly witness a contest between Jack Burke and Larry Foley, theaa two having been matched, Arrangements are being' made for a private party to visit the sonnds and bays along the West Ooast of New Z3aland. Lord Oarrlngton will be one of tbo party. Brisbane, November 30. At Oroydon groat ecarctty of water i exists, "and It 1b now costing 5s per cask, or 6d a bucket. Grave fears are entertained of a water famine. Owing to the rise m tha prtca of carriage flour has gone up to £55 per ton. The outlock for the coming hot Beaaon is anything but a bright one,

An entire boat's orew are supposed to have been massacred at Margaret Bay, near Oape Granvllle.

It is not only m the colony that ferrets attaok ohildren. The " Pall Mall Gazette " says : — Recently at Misterton, near Yeovil, a ferret belonging to a laborer, named Oaborno, entered a bed In whioh a child was sleeping. When discovered the infant had one of its eyes torn out, and the flesh on its faoe lacerated m a dreadful manner. The poor child, which was but four months old, died shortly afterwards. The " Paris Morning News " states that Poillerat, the shoemaker and Socialist orator, who reoently came m for a legacy amounting to about 8,000,000 dollars, bequeathed him by his brother who died m America, is beginning to feel uneasy. With a view to test his Sooialistio principles and tha sincerity of his former ravings against "bloated- bondholders " and " infamous capital," his fellow Socialists intend to call a meeting of the party to decide what he is to do with hiß millions. Weakness and siokness changed to health and strength with Hop Bittera always if thoße made by American 00. See. " Rough on Itch."— 1 Rough on Itoh " cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, cb&tlainß teh, ivy poison barber's itch.