AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 4

A USTRA LIAN SUM MARY

|(Pers.s. Tarawora at; Auokknd.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION;)': ' Sydney, August. 6. Government intend introducing m; the corning session a . Local Government Bill and a Health Bill ; ; also a Bill dealing wilh tho Civil Service. These are the most important of iiiu mensures. Mr DiUbs, Colonial Treasurer, is ill witlr scarlet fever. . ' A full Court yesterday distnissed tlie appeal of the A. S. N. Ciimpany against the verdict of the jury m. the. collision c^se: bet Ween.the steamers' Victoria fnd Keilawarra. ,r h ! ".Great satisfaction is ■ felt ,by the Catholic community at the elevation of JDr Morah to the Cardinalate, Very fine weather is being oxperienced. ■- \ ' . -'• : ' <• ' " ;1 - .. ' ; ; The Political Refoifn League are making great efforts to securo candidates at the coming general election. At the first tea sale , yesterday, good and m- sbihe" cases high prices were obtaiiibd.v. . • Sir Saul Samuel has secured for New South Wales twu relics of Captain Cook, one being the compass by which thu ship, Endeavour was navigated. ■■■■».•■• Brisbane, August 6. - The Queensland Government schooner Mayi», wliije returning to Thursday Island, after having accompanied^ the= Geographical Society's expedition lip the t Fly .River: for forty, Ihileß, ran bn a reef and bpcatne a total wreck. No lives werelost. . . .' ' Several beche de mer fishermen Btat'ed they were attacked by blacks at Cape. Direction. v Uu % e,. v of their party • wds,speared to death, and the rest seriously wounded. .■ •. , ■.•'•;.• : ' ; ' ' ■'" •'"• '" ; -*'" ■'■. The Crown Lands Bill has passed -the Committee of the Asaembly. ; S • '■ Adelaidr, August^. A motion for the enfraiichisemeiit of women was carried m the Assembly without a dissenting voice.