AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2976, 9 October 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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(Pers.s. Manapouri at the Bluff.)

Melboubne, Oct. 4

At the Hunt Club races at Flemington on Saturday, Alhambra won the Hunt Club Steeplechase, Allusion the Plying Stakes and open Steeplech&se, and Abdallah the Flat Race. In the latter race Hebrew ran a splendid second.

The Police Commission is still sitting, A statement was put in yesterday in writing by a member of the criminal class, stating that robberies are frequently caused by detectives employing men to persuade released prisoners to commit fresh crimes in order that the detectives may get credit for , finding them out.

The Aurora Australis on Monday was very brilliant. It was seen all over Australia. The fire-bells were rung; here, some thinking there was a large fire.

The doubt as to whether the Hamilton case was really email-pox is difficult to settle, as the patient is dead and buried twelve feet deep in lime. Dr Youl is now alone in the opinion that the recent case was chicken-pox, seven other doctors being unanimously of opinion that it was true variola. With reference to the arrest of Wm. Hill, manager of the Reedy Creek branch of the Colonial Bank, and charged with ‘ stealing £IO4B, which Hill alleged was stolen during, the night of the 11th August, it now transpires that the prisoner had been for some time past engaged in. extensive mining speculations. The Bank authorities state that they have a complete chain of circumstantial evidence against Hill. . •The Government have received nd information confirming the statement that the Home Government are about to despatch six cruisers to Australian waters.

It is now expected that the Tramway Bill will be passed through Parliament though in a considerably modified form. A compromise baa been effected between the Company and ", a conference,. by which the laying, of tramways will be assimilated to the Glasgow system, the municipalities borrowing the money at a low rate of interest, and leasing to the Company for thirty years, .the Company; paying the interest, > which increases each’ decade.