AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 28 January 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

; (Pur s.s. Manapouri, at the Bluff.) ! ,'■ ; .■ . ■.■""™ : — . ■■ ... . ■ «>; i (UNITED PRESS ASSOCiAfiON.) j ( ..,-'! :v, Mewqvbnb^ Jan. 20." ! Mi* Service is endeavoring to pavp jthe'wayUbr holding; a conference of jlhe Premiers of , the various colonies at an ( wi'rly date,, to discuss the fede-, .ration and annexation questions. He :ha» 'telegraphed tn Mr Stout asking -if: ;it ■will' be convenient for*: .him to at!ten.:l the peeling a&;Hjal>ar&&rvMei' bourne, at the beginning 1 of next ' month. Mr Stout will forward a ' definite reply this week. .. , i are being held m all the i towns m Victoria- to <jousider the New Gain ea^ question! : „;,:; ■.-...". I On '; Thursday last a bnsh fire, ex- > tending over seven miles of country, v : occurred iieari iSuiidhur.se, burning out several selectors and farriaers,,. ;,.. „ i A new scheme has 'been proposed for' the ex termination of rabbits. The : course to he adopted is to fence m all i watei'-lioleswith mbbit^pvoof fencing, ileavingga small- supply x»f; water outi si»l«» to accustom the vermin to -ll»ej j diiuking place, ami ch en poison the I water. Tlie latter-scheme lias been ■ tried with great success, fifteen- hun> | divd rabbits were pbisoned m two | days /m tliis manner. ;-, : : i ; The new postal system is a great ; success, and is already used largely. The death is a'nfiounceil of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bachurst. The Melbourne Y< Rotfon Row," which has been estaMisheil at Albert Park, has been pali'onise'j by the (governor, and is becoming a' fashionable resort. . , 3"ho hody of. the late Joseph Bmgge Slack has Ix-en exhumed, ' and"it was discovered that ho had been stjwnglotj, BaVnes,- who coniestsed to nturdering him awaits liis trial. The evidence is very htrong aya inst him. ' Sydney, Jan. 20, ...... Cripps, licqnsco of the iCoffeo. Pahico Hotel, was arrestefl ou Friday nigh^, charged with settin£(, fire to' his hblp.J, refusefK. M , Three ca^es of snpp'osecl smajlpc^x were reported yesterday m tbeEedfern District. ; Adelaide, Jan. 20, In reply to a telegram fi'Oni Mr. Sevvice» Mr Col ton, Premier, replied : Could not attend oanferencoih fiobart, but coil Id m Molljoume' m February. /Three Bills for absconding debtors'; have been drafted, arid will l»e sent to Melbourne to be submitted to the Vie- '■ torian Government.. > * -„ \