AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4870, 31 October 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Melbodene. The Bill for prohibiting the importation of indecent literature has been passed. Governors Normanhy and Cairns have expressed their inability to accept Bowen’s invitation to visit Melbourne. Musgrave I has accepted. Two riders in Wilson’s circus sustained injuries ; one died. _ The premier has declined to give a definite reply.re street tramways. - j John Bell’s estate pays £30,000 duty, ■ rA Loudon telegram , quotes , Hennessy’s brandy at ;7s-';6d,; new Kent hops, 2s. 6d.; oats, Bs, Id. to 3s. 3d;; flour, £l4. r .National have declared a dividend of 12 per cent,, and carried forward £76,000. . , ,■ Adelaide. • . The public j expenditure for. the; September quarter .was ; £399,3t7, being £87,000 . more .than the corresponding quarter of last year. Wheat, 6s. Id. - .■>’ The Loon and Public Works, Bills were passed..: ~i ~t - Sydket, October 23. - Two brothers named Manning wore drowned in the Hunter river. • -The boat capsized. * The town of Sydney is being supplied with milk from Bernina, which is kept fresh by subjection to intense cold. ■ Qoeensland. Consequent on n superabundance of labor in northern parts, the Government have in-

structed the Agent-General to reduce the number of immigrants. A number of laborers at Townsville have adopted a manifesto, to send to the Agricultural Laborers' Union in England, holding up Queensland, as a field for labor, to public scorn and as a gigantic imposture. The South British Company purchased a block of land in Brisbane at £9O per foot. The tender for the Western Railway extension has been accepted for £2700 per mile.