AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 207, 7 August 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

•» ... , ' ; ''^UNITED PRESS' A SSOCIATICN.] (Per b.s. iManappuri at the Bluff.) '." '*' '■-■ ~< "a - 'xr V;r^^ B PJ?^?[?f '.^leust 1. , ' ' Mr '^eryioe' has despatched a letter i t tjtirpugfe thelGovfefnor^Vp /Jjord Derby, expressing regret at the deoision of tss b 1 Imperial «■ authorities regarding New Guinea, and requesting a recorisidera- : tion of 'theimatter j and, a 1 so, urging a . r»rp^Qc.tor&te f oy.er the Pacific Islands if annexation's. und- sir able. ; ;. Two 66 Lieutenant Wagner, - the pionelr' ofHh'e overland traffic by ' the Suez route to India and Australia, arr now living m Melbourne fin absolute poverty, $nd acting on representations made, the Cabinet has decided to allow , them £1 per week. The Melbourne Tramway Bill has bef.n passed |h .the Assembly. Miss Louise Pomeroy, the well-* . known actress, was -named at Sandhurst to Mr Arthur Elliott, a member < of the dumatic'com: any. Sydney. As the steamer Corrinda, for Launceston, was leaving Newcastle on Friday, she came into collision with .be powder . hulk, alongside which was a lighter with a : large quantity of dynamite. J. he. accident might easily have - resulted m t disastrous explosion. As a result of the recent row at the ' Wa'lseht Municipal Council/ when Alderman Owen was knooked down amongst the chairs by the Mayor, the tatter functionary has been fined 40s for . Jthejwsault. At the. Police Court on Saturday, John Rose, otherwise Happy 'Jack; a member ol the Salvation Army, was committed for trial fir assaulting a girl, who~was also a member of the Army. On the question of federal quarantine, now before the Cabinet, it is intended to invite the other colonies to discuss the subject. Adelaide. A deputation of busines men waited upon the Minister of Education to request that steps might bj taken to eonv neot their establishments with the Police Stations by means of electrical alarms. Mr Parsons recorrmended them to confer privately on the matter, and it was not advisable to proclaim the means used to prevent burglaries. The report of the Building . Com- ' mitteeofthe 1886 Exhibition reoom- ' mends a site on King William'a-roadj • between Government House and the J river. ). Brisbane. < Sir A. Palmer, Acting-Governor, * has received a telegram from Earl Der» t by, asking whether the. late Sir Arthur, I Kennedy was present at a meeting of * the Executive Council on the anne^a* v tion of New Guinea. A reply was sent l by cable stating that be wap present. I b