AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 46, 26 September 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

. [BBUTIBS TBLEGBABMB.I . Sydney, September 25. Eight persons in all have been placed ia quarantine in connection with the out- ' break of smallpox at Rand wrick. It i« t believed the disease was contracted orieinallj by the mother some weeks ag«. At tbe third day's racing of the Aus- ' trahan Jockey Club meeting the Craven ] Plate. 200 tors., with sweepstakes of 10 , soys. each, one forfeit t» go to second horse, f«r three-year-olds and upwards, of one mile and a quarter, was won by '. N«rd«nftldt; Hc-neydew, 2; and Beg. j inald.3. , Bbipbakb, September 25. > In the flame, of Assembly last light a ' iutn was placed on the estimates for pay ing members. The vote was carried by | 23 to 11. { Melbourne, September 25. i The legislative Council rejected, by a 1 majoritj of one vote the clause of the ' new Licensing Act prohibiting the employment of barmaids. Received September 26, 1 a.m. Sydney, September 25. The Health Officer reports that two , of the Kaadwiuk small-pox patients are improrini;, but that » ihird U in a very r dangerous condition at present. T Mblboobnr, September 25. ) July has been scratched for the Melt bourne Cup. Adflaidb, September 25. The Sooth Australian Government has 1 increased the reward offered for the I arrest of Woods the absconding acc-uat-j ant in the Bankruptcy Court, to £1000.