AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 24 April 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

! [Per s s. Manapoufi, a& the Bluff.] '^(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)* ~ i '■, Melbourne. April 16. ; The Hon Tvo Blisfh and and Mrs BU^h were passengers for England Wy the" Ballarat ''last Thursday. *v ' I > l The London Chartered r Bank : h«8 offered JgIOOO reward for the conviction of i\t& Horsham bank robber. •> T | More than 'twenty- claims- for; oomei have been already sent m ta.> the'-> Government by* sufferers m. the Little River rail way iaccident.. ? , • '■ ■■ > SYDNEYyApriIIGi • : The; sculling match heiweon Trickett and Beagh, on Saturd i/y i excite<] coa-sid©i-Al>le mtftfest, r i ras it -was - expected . the winner would row Hanlan. A-lurge flumber of .spectators were present. Beach had an.eusy win, Ti'icketfc never bjeiug a'»le to exten<l himself. Both nien were m splendid condition. Tt "is* tjbought probable, al«p, that Laycock, \i'ho'is now all right will challenge Hanlian. „ i i Arrangements have been made for FTariiart to row Beach on the Parramatta for £500 a side and the jphani - pionship of the world. j Beisbane, April 16. ! The libel case against the Brisbane Courier has concluded. The jury,, after ti few minutes' retirement, returned with an unanimous verdictof not guilty. Mr Justice- Harding entirely concurred with the verdict, and failed to see how the jury could have come to any other conclusion. He regretted he cou ! ld not give costs against the G'overnmenl. ■ r , .Adelaide, April 16. JGrreafc preparations are^ being : mafld , for the inauguration 'of a Grfand Lodge i 6f Freemasons. "''■', A telogram has been received from the ; Ibreman of a well- bbring party at Tata'- ; kanina, GO miles north of Faiina,stat- ( irig that the party,, after three yea i4'\ work, have struck good' water' ai:' 'nj dtipthof lfo6ti:'' The discovery is 'boii-i ridered very important. ( . ; ;;• ||