AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1474, 7 October 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

'. (Per S.S. Manapouri at the. Bluff.} !«■■ l: . ■••.■■.-;••:■ . <Trfl ■.-*!- i> i: .»ill j (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.}, MBLBdUBME. Sept. 3o. I At a meeting-' of^ subscribers to the Gordon Memorial Fund it was decided to accept Mrs (!il Haramo " Thorrieycrott's offer, to* ' a 'duplicate siattreU^oi general Gordon, for .Melbourne, for . -£2500. ' ' . ■ The mateh^.i.Wjhi^p «v A Miller, took place at the'. Theatre Itoyai on Saturday last,' resulting m a win for Whistler by two falls to nil. The first trial -la'&M Nearly an hduP.'&hetaiiastler succeeded m throwing Miller and holding him down. In the second encounter I^histler adaptedJMs old t .toQtic& of getting a hold, ' o^^WcH' His opponent must either give m or 'sustain a fracture of the limb. Miller preferred the former alternative. '; ; ' 'X3y?oi'*£ . | Considerable excitement^h^s oibeen) '| caused m commercial [ circles ( by t an,, es- , animation into theaff irs of \ like, ■ lianis, and,Co~ .whosj business is m : liqtiidatiodJ 'A 7 -'•-■- i ... ij Every , precaution^ iias been takem |m the event 6f an outb/^ik if siWaff-p^x,Vto have the quarantine station imorder and a staff of nurses, «&0., re,ady. ;.... , , « I ' X \'-V£ ;SyDN»y^Sept. 30. > In consequence of the reappearance of small:pox m ,thip oity,, the; Jjo.v,erninpp.t; jhas again proclaimed that all vessels ar-

iivin? from the South must be exauiin;ed l-Wx *! W^ypk , pflßcer.i ( A sfearcli iis s^so being made for any missing passengers l bf the Qung&tja ljst ofrw^hom has be'en deceived. by tlie«authbritieß. i A meeting will be held m order to, make preparations for the reception pi * Cardinal Moran< on liisamyalj in jSydney.