INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 207, 31 August 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, Tuesday 7.30 p.m. It is stated that Mr Stephens who was seriously injured at the railway accident this morning, died this evening. It has transpired that the deceased gentleman was a relative of Judge Stephens. All the other injured persons are progressing favorably.

m 10.30 p.m. The report of Mr Stephens' death has been contradicted. He is still alive, but the doctors hold out no hope of his recovery. The total number of persons injured amounts to twenty.

Wednesday. E. J. Ogg, accountant of the Andit department, has been committed for trial on a charge of forgery. Bail to the amount of £40(i0 has been accepted. A most destructive fire broke out at a drapery store at Wodonga last night, and before it could be extinguished considerable damage was done. The loss is estimated at £5000.

Sydney, Wednesday. Dr Allen has ten supposed caseß of smallpox under observation. Another authenticated freh csbo waa reported to tte Heaith Board yesterday. In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr Copeland moved that an addresß be precepted to the Governor declariDg that the quarantining of healthy persona and houses, supposed to be infected, was cruel and tyramical, and an infringement of the liberty of the subject. Mr Watson, the Lolomal Treafurer, vindicated the notion of the Government in .heir efforts to stamp out the disease, which he believed in time time not far diataut would entirely disappear.