AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 24, 26 June 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

"/((Perß.Tii.S. Australia at Auckland).

v' ; ".:.,- . „„'■ jfBV TBTi 1 GUAPH." , (UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION, "i .C.V--;- > Sydney, June 18. ;• <3oloneT Haultain is making himself thoroughly acquainted with the chari- .-••* table, institutions of the colony. \ "•-,' The wreck. •of the Cahors is likely to .; form tTie subject, of a searching, enquiry. JThe vessel is still standing upright, being oinbedfled on the reef. - There was - great difficulty and danger attending the off of t)ie passengers, .of whom w *i there '-w«tre about two hundred aboard. ■ besides a number ot horses. The boats - : crews behaved admirably.- The passen- ■ .gers'* lajrojajje was mostly lost and dauiv .aged. Ton of the horses have been . saved...- An attempt will be made to get ,:..|he vessel o!F. ."t. '',■■ A-t a conference of representatives of LvTrade and Lal>our Societies last night, a > resolution m favour of protection was {carried unamniou4y. These societies : -vare requested to support protection canat the next general election. A vfnonater demonstration is organising. A block of land has just been purchased m a central part of the city, opposite the clubs, fur £28,000, upon which it is intended to erect a large hotel. Another ' large hotel is projected m Macquarrie- "' street. • j. •. . . Brishank. June 18. At a banquet at Townsvills. tho .^.JQ;ueensland premier referred to the re--.rtmn of islanders, and contended that ' the Government had done the proper thinoffco retain the fair fame of Queensvi land. In regard to a separation he said that the wire-pullers of that movement • : were Yin liondon.' Did they succeed ;*' they/. 'would change that portion ,j of the colony to a similar condition to ; Mauritius and Trinidad. . . Melbourne, Juno 18. i>i: . The detectives are confident of being able to recover the whole of the plunder m the Siuipson's Eoad Bank robbery case..