AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2295, 11 August 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Telegraph,] [Per b.b. WakatifU at Wellington.] MELBOURNE, August 5. The Geelong Town Council propose to adopt a system of sewage, by employing all the sewage of the town for a farming district.

The Indemnity Fire and Marine Insurance Company has been successfully launched, and the subscriptions far exceed the shares available.

The rabbit post is diminishing in tho Western district and multiplying in other parts of the colony. Tho Wood brake has been attached to suburban trams, and is receiving a trial in conjunction with tho unlocked door system. Much excitement has been caused at Sandhurst by the disclosures at the inquest on Margaret Smith, who died suddenly. She was seen alone apparently well by a groom on Monday, and was subsequently visited by a doctor and died soon after. The evidence tended to prove that the doctor, who was not legally qualified, tried to procure abortion. The inquest terminated on Monday with a verdict of manslaughter against Dr. Wall, who was committed for trial.

The Police Commissioner proceeds to Mansfield on Tuesday to make an inspection of the entire country covered by the Kellys, commencing at the spot at which the first police murder occurred, and extending to Wombat Ranges. At the sitting yesterday, a witness named Wallace, a State school teacher, gave evidence which showed that while professing to assist the police, he had kept the outlaws posted with all the news he could learn of the measures for their capture. The Commissioner severely animadverted on Wallace’s duplicity, and his conduct will be brought under the notice of the Education Department. SYDNEY, August 5,

A meeting of residents at Waterloo was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Lily Goldfinch, who informed the police of the conveyance of a Chinaman with smallpox from George street to Waterloo. Some of those present expressed the conviction that had it not been for the readiness with which the girl communicated with the police smallpox would have quickly spread. In the Assembly on Tuesday the Chinese Restriction Bill was passed through its remaining stages and transmitted to the Council for concurrence, although a long discussion occurred upon the motion for the third reading. BRISBANE, August 5. The Assembly on Tuesday passed the second reading of the Pearl Shell Fisheries, Criminal Expulsion, Intercolonial Warrants, and Distillation Bills, with little discussion. The Assembly also passed the second reading of the Marsupial Destruction Bill. The Assembly was in committee last night on the Criminals Expulsion Bill, The sub-section which brings under the provisions of the Act any person having served a sentence for felony in any British possession other than Queensland coming into the colony within three years of the expirotion of the sentence, was negatived by 21 to 15. The Government Savings Bank returns for July show an increase in the amount to the credit of depositors of £12,735. The total sum deposited during the month wa5£56,200. PERTH, August 5. Government are preparing to receive Col. Soratchley to consult as to the best means of fortifying King George’s Sound. The Colonel’s instructions from the Secretary of State are to proceed to Albany by next steamer from Melbourne.

ADELAIDE, August 5, It is proposed to extend the Tatiara Railway to Bordertown, fourteen miles, costing nearly £48,000. A meeting of the Jockey Club on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Sir John Morphett as chairman, and appointed the Hon. R. O. Baker in his place. A telegram from Sir W. Hughes states that he has discovered an invention Tor the utilising of sulphur as a heat agent in smelting copper.