Australian Summary.

Hastings Standard, Issue 462, 28 October 1897, Page 4

Australian Summary.

Sergeant Flanucry, a well - known Melbourne police officer, committed suicide the other clay by hanging himself in his office.

The electric tramway system of Sydney is to be extended from its present terminus in Ocean-street to a point opposite the wharf at Rose Bay. The estimated cost is £13,225. The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales has negatived the second readings of two North Shore_ Bridge Bills, and agreed to the second reading of a Bill to make the connection between Sydney and North Shore by a tunnel under the harbor.

Private W. E. Hanscombe, one of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, who went to England, died on the return trip, of peritonitis, three days after leaving Colombo. His body was buried at sea.

The body of an elderly man was found floating in Rushcutters' Bay, Sydney Harbor, the arms being tied with strips of calico. The Agricultural Department of New South Wales has selected two sites for experimental farms, one in the vicinity of Hay, and the other near Hillston.

Mr John Harper, Goods Superintendent, has been appointed Chief Traffic Manager of the New South Wales Railways in place of Mr Kirkcaldie, who was recently selected as Third Commissioner.

At Port Melbourne Mrs Emily M. Brown, wife of a highly respected Victorian colonist, was fined £IOO for evading the Customs duty by taking jewellery ashore. A resident of Geelong (Vic.) became insane, and imagined he was a dog. While crawling up and down the railway line he was run over by a train and killed. A bookmaker named Albert Harris at Melbourne was fined £IOO for having been in ■ certain premises for the purpose of betting. The will of the late Peter M'Arthur, grazier, of Camperdown (Vic.), has been filed for probate. The estate is valued at £152,481. A labor trouble has arisen at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, from the fact that during the recent fire one of the shifts did not turn up to work on a holiday. About 50 miners were consequently discharged. Ticks are committing havoc in the Walsh and Mitchell districts (Queensland), which suffered severely during the first two years of the post, and have since been considered immuue.