AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2433, 23 January 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TBt Tblbgbaph.J [Per a.s. Botorua, at the Bluff, j MELBOUBNE, January 17. The reports from the quarantine ground are of a generally favourable character, except that Morgan and Mary Cleary are worse, the latter being very ill. The medical officer assured the Government that the supervision exercised is complete, and that those quarantined cannot escape. The polioe force is strengthened. •A burglary was committed on the premises of the Mutual Store on the night of the 13th. The new premises in course of erection afforded the means for the robbers to scale the walls and effect an entranoe by a skylight. One man fell through tho skylight on to the floor below, and was found smeared with blood. All the rest effected their escape, carrying with them the proceeds of four cash boxes containing £l6O. On Sunday last the police made a raid on the premises of James Mace, the ex-pugilist, after obtaining warrants for the arrest of a large number of men engaged in illicit gambling. Thirty-one were arrested, and five false dice were discovered, with counterfeit coin. Mace himself was discovered in bed yesterday. He was fined £25, the others £3 each. A foolhardy man, tho worse for liquor, put his arm inside the bars of tho lions' cage at Wilson's circus at Albury on Sunday, when one of tho quietest caught him and pulled the arm up to the shoulder, then bit it off at the elbow. Edward Linn, a performer, secured the limb, but the man is not expected to recover. It is stated that the Government will deal with tho Police Commiseionore' report in about a fortnight. The remains of the Hon. James Henty were interred on Saturday, in the presence of a large oonoourse, the oortege being over a mile long. Mr Grant Graves Smith represented the Government, and many of the oldest colonists and prominent oitizenß were present. SYDNEY, January 17. One of the third-class female Garonne passengers developed disease, and the carpenter is also sick. It is not yet known if it is smallpox. No fresh cases of smallpox have occurred at Sydney for several days past, but Mrs Palmer is in a very oritical oondition. Bumors are current during the past few days of a disagreement between the Treasurer and Postmaster-General. ADELAIDE, January 17. The second case of small pox is reported to-day, making two in all. Every precaution is taken, with a separate nurse for eaoh patient, MELBOUBNE, January 17. Sinoe the above was written two further cases of small pox are reported, making nine in all under the dootor's care. Dr. Buhner reports that all persons quarantined are examined twioe daily; he considers that the precautions taken when the disease first appeared were wholly inadequate, and calculated to spread the infection.