AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 184, 2 July 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per s.s. Bingaroouaa at the Bluff.)

(united press association.) Melbourne, June 24. The Modern Permanent Building and Investment Society has purchased si site m Collins-street West for £925 per foot, the highest price ever obtained m Melbourne. It is probable an experimental' cable line tramway will be constructed at once, m order to test its suitability here. Quong Tarty a Chinese merchant of Sydney, is interviewing Messrs Service and Berry with, a view to pro. Mbiting the importing of opium, except for medical purposes. The Rev. H. L. Millmain, the late Anglican Archdeacon of Hamilton, who has served his connection. ;&itli ; the Chinch of England, preached Vis first sermon at the Victoria Parade Congregational Church on Sunday last. Sydney, June 24. '• The report ofiihe Select ooirimitU£i appointed to inquire into the iriagine mystery, states the belief that Young and party wore murdered antl thrown overboard. A carrier was 'stuck up by two masked men near Glen lnnes and robbed of his money. A man named Adams, employefl at the Prospect .Reservoir, attempted to murder his wife, m a fit of jealously, by shooting her iv the neck, and i hen took to the bush. Adelaide, June 24. The City Health Officer has reported enteric fever caused by milk supplied from a dairy at Hilton. A number of cases of typhus have been traced directly to that cause. Dr Jones, medical officer to tho Destitute Asylum, committed suicide ' owing to the fact of an inquiry being about to be made into an outbreak of ophthalmia amoog children under his charge. The Duke of Manchester is visiting various places of the colony. Two hundred and sixty. five camels have arrived by steamer from Kurrachee for transport trade iv the inferior. Brisbanf, June 24. Miclmel Ready, plaintiff m the libel action against Figaro, has i*esigncd his appointment as Justice of | the Peace. A notice m the Gazette prohibits recruiting at the islands of New Britain, New Ireland, and islands adjoining. Frank Dee, brought upatCooktown charged with kidnapping and shootiug an aboriginal, has been acquitted.