AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 230, 8 September 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

THE ANNEXATION QUESTION. THE LUSITANIA ON FIRE. [Reuter’s Telegrams' . Melbourne, September 5. Arrived this morning—Steamship Waihora from the Bluff. Sydney, September 5. Arrived yesterday morning — Steamship Wakatipu, from Wellington. Sailed yesterday afternoon—Manapouri, for Auckland. All the small-pox patients are progressing favorably. Mr. Service, Premier, has telegraphed to the Agent-General in London, urging the necessity for expediting the annexation of New Guinea, in view of the colonising activity now manifest on the part of Germany and Austria.

Letters which have been received here from passengers by the steamship Lusitania, which left here on the 25th July for London, state that a fire broke out on board shortly before the vessel reached Diego Garcia. It is understood that the charcoal around the refrigerator ignited. The fire, however, was extinguished in a few hours, and no serious damage was caused.

Professor Liversidge, of the Sydney University, states that the telegram sent to the meeting of the British Association at Montreal was to the following effect:—Professor Caldwell finds that the Monotreme mammals of Australia are oviparous, but that their ovum is meroblastic, or only partially germinal.