Australian Summary

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 40, 14 September 1886, Page 2

Australian Summary

(Per s.B. Tarawera, Via the Bluff.) ..', Victoria. — Attention has been called in Parliament te the disgrace?: - ful state of the morgue. One member ., said the place was over-run witn. rate, and several bodies had been mutilated^, by the vermin. . . The secretary of the YictoriaQ.Coursing Club protests against 'the Minister of Customs interdicting the.' sport of hunting rabbits with fox terriers. The matter was referred! to in the Assembly, and notice of a question given. One Minister said it was no sport, but downright torture, aid another that it was a beastly cruelpastime. It was stated the cluW were the means of killing 22,000; rabbits yearly. .. : New South Wales. — 'Members of,. the Assembly, favourable to a tax pa _... agricultural produce, will hold a meeting to see what steps can be taken in . order to influence Government into granting aright for another discussion of the proposed tax. Lately the Commercial Bank was swindled by a cheque for £2 having been altered to £200. Western Australia. — The accuraoj of the Key. Mr Gribbles' statements, as to ill-treatment of natives, has been . confirmed in several quarters. He has brought an action against the Western Australian newspaper, claiming £10,000 damages for alleged libellous statements, Queensland.— A fire recently broko out in the Parliament House. It was found to have been caused by the fusing of two ends of ft wire used in the electric lighting of the House. There was great excitement, but tho fire was quickly put out. Adams, manager of the Joint Stock Bank at Charters Towers, committed suicide by shooting himself. The bank affairs are correct, and it is supposed the cause was the worry of man* agement. Twenty-eight men were captured in a Chinese gambling den in Charters Towers. The keeper of the houßO was fined £100 or six months, and 26 of the men £3 10s 6d,