BRISBANE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3218, 22 October 1881, Page 3

BRISBANE.

October 22. The British Union Steam Navigation Company's steamship Almora, from Batavia, has been quarantined at Cooktown for typhoid fever, of which there are three caseß on board.

(Per Heeo at Auckland.) NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, October 15. The Ring Barking Bill passed through committee in the Legislative Council on the 12th, and the third reading took place on the following day. The Council insisted on cutting out the £10 poll tax and the clause prohibiting the acquisition of property by Chinese from the Chinese Restriction Bill. The Assembly carried the local option clause of the Licensing Bill on the 12th after a long debate. The Church 'of England Synod continues sitting daily. The subject of marriage with deceased wife's sister was debated, but without any definite results. Ecclesiastical organisation, the clergyman's widows and orphans fund, and tbe i eboriginal missions, were also discussed, and projects for joint action in such matters were considered. A resolution was adopted on the 14th recording the deep sympathy of the Church of England with all true members to branches of the protestant church. No fresh cases of small-pox have occurred during the present week. The Denford family at Pyrmont were seriously affected. The child Esther died on the 13th and an infant succumbed on the following day. The others were carefully quarantined and nursed. The patients at the quarantine ground proi gress satisfactorily. Lieut. Phillips and two men of H.M.S. Alaority, while surveying the Islands of

Yedna in Fiji, were drowned on the 6th September through the capsizing of a boat.