AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2559, 4 September 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington.]

Melbourne, August 27. The Tasmania cable is not yet repaired, owing to the bad weather in the Straits.

An offer of a thousand guineas was made and refused for Termallum. A verdict of £1520 has been awarded to Mr A. F. Bradshaw, a sporting reporter, who was in the Little Eiver collision.

Sydney, Angnst 26. The small-pox outbreak has been the principal topic. The location of the disease was the Oriental Hotel, Lower George and Argyle streets, in the most crowded part of the city. There were fourteen persons in the hotel, five of whom (three adults and two children) were suffering from variola, and in some the disease was nearly in the first stage. It seems that one of the patients had been attended by a medical man since the Bth inst., but it was not for a fortnight later that any inforformation reached the Government Health Officer. The patients had been treated for chicken-pox and Dr. Vickler still persists that it is not small-pox. The hotel premises were in an insanitary condition sufficient to cause any disease. The patients were at once removed to the quarantine station, and the hotel strictly quarantined. Every precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of the disease.

There was a large atteudance at Hawkesbury meeting, which passed off very successfully. The scratchings of Sir Mod red is forming the subject of an inquiry by Tattersall's Club, and several bookmakers and others have been summoned to attend next Monday.

An extenaive fire at Bathurst last night destroyed the flour mills of Baylson and Co. The premises were gutted. The loss is £IB,OOO. They were insured in several offices including New Zealand.

The weather has been quite hot, and summer-like, the want of rain again causing anxiety in some parts of°the country.