AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 11, 11 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per City of Sydney at Auckland.)

(UNITED PREW ASSOCIATION.) Svdkey, Dec. 4. No further cases of smalkpo*: have, been reported. There ara now eleven cases m quarantine, some of the patients being very bad. The dry, hot weather of the last few days has been so for favorable. The scare has drawn attention to the defective sanitary state of the city and most of the dwellings. . The Premier has considerably' im-. proved m health. lie has now returned home, and is preparing to leave for New Zealand. . , . This colony will not take part m the Antwerp Exhibition. The man-of.war Nelson has returned to port from New Guniea, She will here remain now until the arrival of the adr miral and the new command. •The English cricketers . returned from Graftqn, where they ; were;hospitably en» tertained. „, .;., , Brisbane, Deo. 4. Flying foies and other vermin are very prevalent on Darling Downs. ; | ' Mei,bouene;' Dec. 4, ;: The Governmeut has undertaken to bear half the cost of the establishment and maintenance of a . lighthouse on I Eddystone Point, on the north-east coast

of Tasmania, at the entrance to Bass Straits. The Government Astronomer and Board of Visitors of Observatory recommend that a party should be sent to New Zealand next September for the purpose of observing the solar eclipse.