AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4059, 25 July 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[Per Rotomahana at Bluff.]

A "SWEEP" PROSECUTION

MASSACRE IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

Melbourne, July 16

Jeremiah Boland, of tho Champion Hotel, Fitzroy, has been committed for trial for getting up a sweep on the Waterloo Cup under the pseudonym of " Archdruid." A number of Mahommedans waited on the Minister of Lands and obtained permission to use the Albert Park Reserve to celebrate the Feast of Ramzan according to Mahommedan ritual, including animals, &c.

The Kennedy Family, the Avell-known vocalists, left for England per s.s. Assam to-day. The Hobart Chamber of Commerce _ has decided that it is undesirable to have direct steam service with England at present. The Racing Club have decided to offer £1000 to be run for in February, with a sweep of 10 soys., nominations to be 5 soys. Mr Broughton, deputy - master of the Mint, has been taken to the Cremome Lunatic Asjdum suffering under temporary insanity. The bill for tho amalgamation of the legal professions has passed the Assembly. ' Sydney, July 16. Miss Genevieve Ward scored a great success as Lady Macbeth. At the special religious service on Sunday in connection with the 12th July celebration 7000 were present. The schooner George Noble brings intelligence of the massacre of natives on the islands of the King's Mill group by a neighboring chief. With the assistance of the English vessel Kate Macgregor, Captain Steward, the chief of the island of Apimama attacked the island Nai Nonti, pillaged the island, shot 25 natives, and took a large number of prisoners. A trader named Lawther came to Sydney to report the matter to the Commodore.

The Presbyterian Intercolonial Conference is sitting. They resolved to establish a magazine called the Federal Presbyterian. ■ Thelabor vessel, Forest King, has been seized for a breach of the regulations and having no interpreter on board. There were thirty-thrco recruits on board, and thirteen others jumped overboard and swam ashore. ■

Hob art, July 16

The Treasurer's Budget shoAved that the colony was in a fairly prosperous,condition. The revenue was good in spite of the remission of taxation last year, and the next year would commence with a surplus of £11,355:

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