AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 153, 27 May 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(united press association.)

(Per s.h. Manapouri at the Bluff.) Melbourne, May 21, A large body of men, headed by a man named Fairhurst, well known as au agitator and a demagogue, waited at tlie Government office on Saturday, asking for work. The Trades and Labor Couucil consider the demonstration uncalled for, as work is easy to get. Adelaide, May 21. Simeon Barnard, the secretary to the South Australian Jockey Club, made a bst of a shilling on the Morphetville course with the Hon. R. C. Barker, in the presence of a detective, and in a consequent test case was fined £2 and costs. Agitations are on foot to stop loading and unloading mail steamers on Sunday. Brisbane, May 21. The Supreme Court Lave refased to re-admit Mr San wick as a barrister. The Chief Justice commented strongly on his conduct. It i« stated i-hat .Edward Trickett, the sculler, will probably settle at Rocldumpton. Davis and McMurdo, of the labor schooner Stanley, will be sent to Fiji for trial on a charge of cruelty to natives. The premises of the Brisbane Courier aud Queensland Observer are now lit by electric light. Sydney, May 21. Hanlan has accepted the challenge ] of Beach for a match for the championship of the world, over the cham- ' pion course, on the Pairaoaatta Bivev. Hanlan is willing to row for a thousand a-side. On account of the unemployed neglecting to accept the offer of work at 6s to 6s 6d per day, the Government have decide 1 to discontinue measures for their relief. This excited the wrath of the men, who met and passed some fuolisb. resolutions on the subject. Mi- V. "W. Giblin, the manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, uiod on Friday. Mr Booth continues his temperance movement, ami the police say that there has been a decrease in crinio since the commencement of his mission. A Bill has been introduced for the suppression of lotteries