AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2534, 23 May 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

□By Tblbqbaph.J [Per s,s. Te Anan, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, May 16.

A child five years old qt Carlton house is reported to ba suffering from smallpox. It has been isolated, but some doubts are expressed whether it is chicken or small pox. The Hon. Francis Ormond intends completing Ormond College at a cost of £BO,OOO. The Australian Club’s Coursing Cup, to be run next month, is worth 600 boys, in addition to fifty guineas. Mr F. M. Innia, President Legislative Council, Tasmania, is dead. SYDNEY, May 16.

The death of David Lord, amateur champion oarsman of the polony, has caused general regret. The missionary schooner John Williams reports that good progress is being made at all the mission stations in New Guinea. The weather is fine and dry, and rain much wanted throughout the country. ADELAIDE, May 16. Fourteen candidotes have been nominated for the six seats in the Legislative Council.

[Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland.] SYDNEY, The tramway to Botany was opened on the 17th. The lines and crossings worked well, and the journey was performed in forty-five minutes. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution that the wharfage accommodation was inadequate, and urged the resumption of Circular Quay to Darling Harbor by the State, with a view of placing the same to the charge of the Harbor Trust. The trial of Rodway and Wilson for defrauding the public by “ coupons advertisements,” has concluded. Bodway has been sentenced to two and a half years, and Wilson to twelve months’ imprisonment. The small steamer St. Albans, engaged in the milk trade from Kiama to Sydney has been totally wrecked on the Yellow Rock, north of Botany. All hands were saved. The Glebe miners have passed a resolution stating that no miner shall be allowed to work top coal under 4s 101 per ton. The position of affairs in the strike is unchanged. A Coroner’s jury recently returned a verdict of accidentally drowned to a man who fell in the water between the Orient steamer and the quay. MELBOURNE.

The barque Olivia Davis is now broadside on the beach at Warnatnbool, all hopes of saving her having been abandoned. Dowd, a latter carrier, has received eighteen months’ imprisonment for stealing money from a letter.

The yield of gold last year was SOO.OOOozs being the largest return for the last five years, BRISBANE. . Forty-four cares of typhoid fever are in Brisbane Hospital. The Premier has promised a deputation to recommend bis colleagues to order the survey proposed of the Lyttelton railway, The Adelaide case of Bundle v Van Douosa, £IOOO damages for an assault in connection with the Adelaide “ Bulletin,’? commences on the 19th.

A person named Wood insured his life in the National Mutual for £4OO and committed suicide. The company resisted the claim, but the jury gave a verdict against them, on the ground that Wood committed suicide while insane. \