AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2602, 9 August 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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[Per s.O. Eotorua, at the Bluff,] MELBOURNE, August 1. All vessels from Batavia are to be quarantined owing to cholera. The Metropolitan Gas Company voted £2006 to the family of the late Secretary for his valuable services. The farmers at Kyncton, an extensive agricultural district, are in favor of the total abolition of the stock tax. Servants’ wages have risen, and the supply continues scarce. Joseph Cook, the Boston lecturer, is drawing large audiences. Another raid has been made on Chinese gambling houses, and the defendants were fined from £lO to £ls, The weather during the last week has been very unsettled, A fair amount of rain has fallen all over the country. The Government forwarded, by yesterday’s mail, orders to the Agent-General to purchase four Armstrong armour-platings for the South Channel Fort, in accordance with the recommendation of Sir W. Jervoiee. Sixty men have been now enrolled for the permanent Artillery force, and another sixty will be engaged as soon as possible. SYDNEY, August 1. The Minister of Lands has taken prompt action in regard to the recent dummyism by means of paupers from the Erysipelas Hospital at Paramatta. The whole of the deposits, amounting to £960, were forfeited. Proceedings have also been taken to prosecute criminally all connected with the fraud. An audacious highway robbery was committed at Adelong on Saturday. Three men stuck np a man, whom they robbed of £45. They gagged him, and ho was found much exhausted. The police are on the trail. A contract for £437,000 has been lot in connection with the Sydney Waterworks. Groat preparations are making for the reception of Sir Henry Parkes on arrival. Sugar making has been started at Lismore with good prospects. Advices have been received that the second shipment of wine to Bordeaux was delivered short. It is believed to have been stolen on the route.

ADELAIDE, August I. A clause is to be inserted in the Newspapers Bill at the imtance of the Government, that when, in opinion of the Judge or Special Magistrate, an article in the newspaper contains anything injuriou*, he can order the publisher to give the name of the writer. A Millers and Mercantile Company with three-quarter* of a million capital has been started.

Archibald Forbes is drawing immense houses.