AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 44, 24 January 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

— ■.*. -i m ■ \ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, Jan. 15. At a banquet at West Maitland, Mr Dallay appeared as the vindicator of the Government m the course it pursued with regard to flew Guinea annexation. He said it was perfectly certain thatan.yinan wlio presumed on a public hustings to assert that any conduct on the pa Ft of the Imperial Qovwyneut had ever taken away * our allegiance to the empire, would dimply bo covered with riiiioule.

When asked to join iv a meaningless protest to oiidnuger the relations of Uih Imperial Government, he felt at once we could on no ground whatever dream of taking part m such a proceeding. Brisbank, Jan. 15. The schooner Young I)ick, just arrived at Maryborough with a hundred recruits, reports that near Mulieolo Island two settlers were trading for a German firm. One of them, an Englishman, named Peters, has bben murdered ; four Kanaka employers were also murdered, atid afterwards the surviving settler, a German, was surrounded and killed. Adelaide, Jan. 15. Information has been received that a man named George King, who left Tt>nuant's Creek a few days ago with five horses, has died of thirst. The horses are also dead. Melbourne, Jan. 15. . The bootmakers 1 strike continues, but the men are daily returning to work under the manufacturers, rules.