SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1795, 21 March 1888, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide, Maroh 20. In consequence of the receipt of a special report to the effect that Port Darwin is now free from any disease of an infectious nature, the recent quarantine proclamation has been revoked. The Land Nationalisation Society of South Australia will join the New South Wales Society m inviting Mr Henry George, author of "Progress and Poverty," to lecture m the colonies,

The self-accused murderer, Carroll, has been formally charged with the murder of Miss Clouston, or, as the affair is more widely known, the Eltham murder, A circumstance which gives

an air of probability to Carroll's story is that at the time of the murder it was reported that a soldier was seen running away from the spot where the murdered girl was subsequently discovered. This man could not afterwards be found. It will be remembered that Carroll was a soldier, and had deserted. It appears however, that he had not deserted when the murder was committed, and his own story bears out the theory that he was the soldier seen at the time.

The Government have received information from the Colonial Office that her Majesty the Queen has refused the Royal assent to Sir Alfred Stephen's Divorce Extension Bill.

Accompanying the intimation of the refusal of her Majesty to give the royal assent to the Divorce Extension Bill was a letter from the Colonial Office, pointing out that the Queen's advisers disclaim any intention of interfering with colonial legislation, but that they could not ignore the exceptional importance of the Bill. The letter further urges that any alteration m the law should be confined to the cases of persons domiciled m the country m order to obviate suggestions of immorality or illegitimacy. Assent to this Bill should not be again asked till it was absolutely certain that the people at large agreed with the principles of the measure, and the Bill should be left to a succeeding Parliament to pass after the country had been afforded an opportunity of expressing a definite opinion on the question.