AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 172, 18 June 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per 8 s. Kotomahana at the Bluff.) (united press association.) Melbourne, June 10. Th<! Customs has seized a quantity of the publication called " Freethinker's ground," being blasphemy, containing pi-oHmo picture-;. Mivs Marshall, wife of Fred Marshall the well-known comedian, died on Thursday last of typhoid fever. Her death Ls a calamity to hey' husband, wfaowill never be fit for work again. Hani an gave an exhibition of rowing on the" Albert Park Lake on Saturday. An immense number of people witnessed the nffair, which was such a success that it will be repeated next Saturday. A defect has been discovered m the Tramway Bill which may delay the construction. No provisions were inserted m the Bill providing for securiug the rights of the debenture holder* against the tramways trusi. An amending Bill will probably he introduced. A Plan named Burke died at Williamstown Sanatorium. The case is presumably one of smallpox, but a great disagreement exist! amongst the doctors as to the axac't. nature of the jdisea.se. All the ettects of the deceased have been burnt. 1 The Groat Southern Cup Meeting of the Victorian Coursing Club was ! concluded on Saturday. H. Gow's Goorook won the Cup, defeating Moonsoon, winner of the New South Wales Waterloo Cup. Soot's Lady Dimdai won the Oval Stakes, and J. ■McOulloch's Carangamite. the Eenperb Stages. ~ Sfdnby, June 10. Since the opening of the temporary labor exchange this day last, year 544 persons have registered their names as desirous of obtaining employment j 102 found work. The steamer Collary, which ran ashore three years ago between Newcastle and Sydney, has been successfully floated. The Minister of Educatiou has 'promised lo co-operate with Bishop Barry to take advantage of such facilities as the Public Instruction Act allows for iu.p.irting religious instruction m public schools, but has declined to submit any hcheme himself. Probably the Bishop will consult the clergy of the various denominations ill view of uuiied action. Brisbane, June 10. The Victorian gunboats Victoria and Albert aiid the torpedo boat Childers have arrived here from England. Jolin McLean and Francis Ro»van, seamen belonging to the labor schooner Fore»t King, were sentenced to three years* penal servitude, the fir.sfc year m irons, for kidnapping uiue islanders in' January la&t. The Gym pie mines continue to give fabulous yields. The Litest crushing of the Wilmotfc Extended [ gave 21830zs from 250 tons of stone. \ Mr J. B\ Garrick, the new AgentGeneral, is so far recovered from the effects of his accident that he hopes to be able to leave nexfc week. Hobart, May 10. The question whether railway rolling stock shall be made m the colony is being generally discussed. Meetings have been held passing resolutions iv favor of such, a coui-se.