AUSTRALIAN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 46, 20 September 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

A DIVORCE CASE. £s>ooo DAMAGES. THE COLONIES AND FRENCH CONVICTS. BBCTXS'I TILEGRAXS. SyDNET, September 18. The divorce case, Howitz v. Howitz and Solomon, concluded here to-day. The jury returned a verdict for the petitioner (husband), with damages £5,000, against the co-respondent. Received Sept. 20, 1.15 a.m. Sykibt, September 19. Probate on the will of the late Archbishop Vaughan was granted to-day, property being sworn at £61,828. A large attendance is expected at St. Mary's Cathedral to-morrow, when Bishop Redwood will deliver a panegyric upon the deceased prelate. Melbocbne, September 19. Iu the Legislative Assembly this evening James Service, the Premier, in replying to a question, took occasion to remark that Lord Derby completely failed to appreciate the importance to Australia of the deportation of French convicts to the Pacific Islands, he declared to the Pacific Islands. He declared that if England permitted this deportation the colonies would themselves be obliged to devise means for preventing convicts landing on their shores. He considered that the French to populate the Pacific Islands with criminals from French cities was contrary to the acknowledged principles of international comity, and justifies abrogation of any agreement between the English and French Governments with regard to those Islands. A debate on the question ensued on the motion of adjournment, various speakers unanimously declaring that such a calamity must be averted by tny means. Bbisbanb, September 14. The emigrants by the steamship Duke of Westminster, placed in quarantine for small-pox, will be released on Monday next.