AUSTRALIAN NEWS
[Br Tbxhgbaph.] [Per s.s. Eotomahana, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, February 16. A fire took plaoe at Eohuca on Monday night. Eight buildings were destroyed. Some of the owners are left penniless. Mr Wades, secretary to the Board of Agrioulture, was suspended yesterday for his action in regard to the eradication of vines, bo., which met with the strong disapproval of the Minister of Lands. The revenue returns are very satisfactory. The rents of leasehold property were £23,000 behind on the 28th of January. The agents of the Sobraon say there is no oause for alarm for the safely of that vessel, as the weather has been fine along the ooast. The headboard was probably washed away. The question of removing the Melbourne Hospital is ocoupying the attention of the Central Board of Health. The site in the Royal Park is favored, The erysipelas question is being fully ventilated both inside and outside the institution. Bishop Crane, of Sandhurst, who leaves for Rome to-day, was presented with a parse of a thousand sovereigns. SYDNEY, February 15. Mr Bent, Minister of Railways, and the offioers of the Victorian Railway Department are making enquires into the working of the railway system in this colony. Layoook will probably soou leave for England to assist Triokett, and will likely challenge the principal scullers. The ooach from Mount Brown was compelled to travel ninety miles without water. The diggers have bean compelled to leave Mount Brown, and a serious loss of life, it is feared, will ensue through the want of water. ADELAIDE, February 15. The seoond daughter of Governor Jervoise was married yesterday to the Rev. W. Cuff, son of the Dean of York. The Oommissioßer of Crown Lands, who recently returned from the North, found that the complaints of the selectors were well founded. The country was in a bad state. The Ministerial party en route for Port Darwin met with very rough weather on the Queensland coast, and the position at one time was somewhat critical.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2458, 21 February 1882, Page 3
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