AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BT TEI|B<JB<VPH.) (UNIIED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ~ „: > Mei«bourn.b, January 2. TJie. wpathenrtas -beautiful yesterday. The to the bays, the races, and the cricket matches were well patronised..; The; Sal ration Army held an anniversary meeting m the Exhibi- ' tion Building. ; The new postal tates lake effect to-day. Letters weighing one ounce may be , transmitted throughout the colony ibf. twopence^ instead of halt an ounce, as formerly. \ Thirteen magsuaen were arrested on ""Fridajyon chargesiJf havtn'giia^awful means of support. The men «'arje all well-known as gaining a living ,uy ■swindling;. : country people,? ,&c. t $y; means of various tricks, s.ucfc|as the confidence dodge,, jtvipjk] and others. . Prisoners, were remanded for. a week." ; - ::i; _ ■-;■•"•■•"•■•■•" j' " ' Owing to the 'dry weather, bush fires are numerous^' At-Tjofcfei Kowan, m the northern- district, one swept ,15 mUesYandiiß not ye.c extinguished. A hundred miles of fencing 1 was destroyed,, and 300 acres of 'crop^a large quantity of wheat, and a number of sheep were- burned. The loss up to the present is over; £80,000;, • Several farmers are ruinedv . iJ(: ■, . Actions have been commenced by, 16 . persona claiming^- in^ th f e . aggregate £14,500, for injuries received m the accident to the- racecourse train during Cup week. Sydney, January 2, : •i ; Destructive bushfires are prevalent m. many parts gf. the colony, causing much destruction to property, ' "Seven-, men have heen arrested on suspicion of csmplidty m the murder of the woman MaVgaret Owe»,at Waterlop. Qne : prison?r,v,naniedJßyles, gave evidence jbhat.deqeHsed had been out' r raged by ; a numbei: of menmnd left insensible on the ground. Prisoners' were lemanded.: ... > ; , -"i A match has been arranged for £1000 a side between the Hon. James White's filly Folnnthe and Buckingham.