AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2661, 17 October 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Telegraph.]

[Per s.s. Arawata, at the Bluff 1 MELBOUENB, October 11.. Mr Bant, Commissioner of Bailwaye, is recoveting from the effects of his *OOI on , but is unable to attend the Assembly a ® 7 * The City Council propose to borrow £200,000. They will probably try to tioat the loan in the London market. .. . The Central Board of Health have called on the Local Board at Hamilton to remove Dr. Chambers, the Health Officer, for gi g on erroneous description of the symptoms in the alleged smallpox case lately. John Alexander Dowic has commenced an anti-liquor crusade at Colhngwood. A of men and women assembled ou^‘*^ e , and public-houses and denounced the dealers, exhorting prayer and inviting them to throw the liquor into the gutter. , The question of the security of the documents of the Titles Office is mooted since the Sydney fire. It is intended to protect the windows by fire-proof shutters. On Sunday o boat containing five persons was capsized on the Yarra, owing to the occupants skylarking while changing places. Margaret Bourka and George Woods were drowned. Woods tried to save the girl, but both sank. .... . The Bav. Charles Strong has just returned from Europe. He preached on Sunday to a crowded congregation. The remains of Francis Heenan have been exhumed at Ararat. It is supposed that he has been murdered. Bobert Smith was arrested on Monday morning for the Avenal Bank robbery. It appears that after the robbery some Queensland black trackers traced footsteps in the direction of Melbourne, bat did not capture him. On Sunday night Smith walked into Melbourne, went into a restaurant, and confided to a boy named Jacobs that he had done the Back robbery, swearing the boy at the same time to secrecy by threats and producing a revolver. The boy told the secret, however, and the prisoner was arrested. On his way to gaol ho made a determined effort to escape, but was captured in Collins street. The apprentice who was injured by falling from the rigging of the Muncaster Castle is since dead.

A ease of garrotting in Little Collies street occurred on Friday, A gentleman was seized from behind and thrown down, but, fortunately, assistance came up, and the assailants fled. They have not been cap. lured.

The police intend taking action against those getting up large sweeps, but nob until after the Cup is over. SYDNEY, October 11. The ringleaders in the mutiny in Parramatta Gaol have been flogged and removed to Barima Gaol.

Doctor Marano, the Italian Consul, ha* received a letter from Menotti Garibaldi, thanking the people of New South Wales for their sympathy with the family at. their father’s death.

At an inquest held on the fire in George street, in which Mrs Wright was burned to death, a verdict of orson and manslaughter was returned against Wm. Dunn. The Coroner directed him to be indicted. ADELAIDE, October 11.

The Chamber of Commerce supports the proposal of Government to hold an Exhibition in 1886 in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of tho colony. The Government will be asked for a subsidy. The movement which was put on foot for opening the Art Gallery on Sundays has been successful, and the gallery will be thrown open immediately, A correspondent writing to the South Australian “ Advertiser ” suggests, as a means of making the colony known, the advertising of the land grant system in English railway stations and carriages, and also the publication of a pamphlet, and the establishment in London of saloons where Australian wines only era sold. The Commissioner of Crown Lands has promised to instruct the Agent-General to advertise in the railways, as suggested.