AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
(Per s.s. Wairarapa.afc Auckland.) (UNITED : PREJ3B ASSOCIATION.) * SYD>iKt, May 15. Tho Hon. Mr Stuart 'has returned m 'good health and resumes active dury next week. ' ' | The scarcity df water issnow the graat qunstion, rfrfd is* causing 1 cdtisideWblo' anxiety. -There is still no. appearance j of rain, and the 1 >Botaify - Wamps4iave become mere mud holes. Such a drought has not \io6n experienced for a "period of thirty years. Every precaution is beirjtf j/used; to conserve the small: : supply fctiH remaining. . . . . ;.. ■-,•" . ? j Typhoid fever is : prevalent, and a greater number of case^ jiave been.reported that m any previous year. " The Minister of Lnnds' is very ill, and great diffu-ulty exists m brmginsj tlie lirnv Laud Act m operation. It isexpoc-' ted that p'aus for thfl -ail way into the city will bo presented to . PArliament m August.. - : ' . . [ The Vjce-AdinirrtHy Court ordered the sale of tho scho.mer Nfghtfngaie and her' cargo. - . . Archhishup Moran, who leaves here iV'Xt month forthfi piirposo of pacing a visit to Uome on Church bnsinessjs expected to return m time for the Plenary Synod, summoned for^ the 14th £fov(6mbbr. -. '''""-' ' " ,• : . Brisbane,, May 15. The Governmotrt havo decided to; advance loans for the . encouragement p£ deep sinking; below tKe lowest depth now reached. " ? It is has been decided to accept the tender of Gray Davies for supplying six bounty immigrant steamers from London. . ' : : ; : ■ .. • . . . MEriBOL'RNf, May 15. At IVtessrs Robertson Bros., sale of Rtud cattle, tho highest price iriven for n bull was 525 guinoas for First Drysfiale. Th» sale brought over.itiSOOO.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 143, 22 May 1885, Page 2
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254AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 143, 22 May 1885, Page 2
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