AUSTRALIAN NEWS
FBy Telegraph.) [Per e.s. Alhambra, at the Bluff.] MBLBOUENB, December IC, A committee of the Council recommends that the first polling for elections far the Council be held on a Thursday in November next year. The principle of local option wn b farther debated in the Assembly and adjourned for a week. A Bill for the abolition of pensions passed through committee in the Assembly and will not affect the interests of any person at present in the service. The Bill brought in to suppress gambling by sweeps met with opposition and is postponed.
The (revenue returns received daily at the Customs are very satisfactory. On the 6tb, £10,780 was received, which is the largest amount ever received for one day. Professor Maneon has commenced legal proceedings against Professor Elkington for the recent assault at the University. The Minister of Eailways has declined to grant free passes to the cricketere so long as they receive gate money. Heavy rains fell yesterday, and there was a severe thunderstorm on Wednesday. ' Bell, a well known resident at Mount Mercer, while driving with hia wife in a buggS. struck by lightning and killed. At Talbot, a girl, aged eighteen, was struck by lightning during the same storm, and carried home paralysed. Eusden, the Clerk of the Parliament, again asked to be allowed to retire and ofuim a pension of £SOO a year. Ho has occupied the position twenty five years. M. Matson, formerly the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, committed suicide in a horrible manner. He was of unsound mind. SYDNEY, December 10. The case against the Milburn Crock Trustees will be heard at the February sittings. Another case of smallpox of a child ia reported. BBISBANE, December 16. Governor Kennedy has receivi d a telegram from Lord Clanwilliam, dated from Shanghai, stating that the detached squadron had been dispersed. ADELAIDE, December 10. During the nine moths of the present year 35,715 acres have been sold for £64 396 cash, and on deferred payments 497,669 acres for an aggregate of £601,160. A boiler at the bone crushing mills at Dulwich burst and wrecked the premises, but no one was injured.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2403, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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