AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1711, 18 May 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per s.s. Manapouri, at the Bluff.) ." '^ftWliteb PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; : JWelbourne, May 12. The Commission of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria brought its annual session to a close on Friday last. The assembled ministers and elders expressed their approval of the action taken by the Heathen Missions Committee 'm protesting against the proposed annexation of the New Hebrides by France. A large meeting was held at the Oddfellows' Hall Warrnambool, io express sympathy with the Home Rule proposals of Mr Gladstone. to that effect were carrincl by a large majoritj . Pkrth, (W.A.), May 11. By the steamer Otway which arrived from Derby on Sunday lust, news comes • to hand that a 29 ounce nugget was found by a man named Slattery. Up to therdate of the Qtway's, departure 2000oz reached Derby from Kiinberley gold fields. • X Sydket, May 12. A serious railway collision occurred yeatprday .;pn -;|he Southern line near ;Bowrae,. eight imilea from Sydney. A tourist train fr'tim Sydney, and an up goods : train cam© into collision. The locomotive of the tourist train ran into the other engine and threw the tender off.. Two of the carriages were telescoped, and fifteen persons nrjured, but no loss of life is expected. . The French steamer San Martin from Havre, which put into Newcastle, has on board prisoners tor Noumea. The San . Martin is the first of the regular lines i|