AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1201, 8 July 1884, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, July 4

The debate on the resolutions of the Sydney Convention was resumed in the Assembly last evening. The discussion was continued til! midnight, when Mr Barwon moved the adjournment. The Government absolutely refused to agree to this, and the House divided, with the result that the motion was negatived by 51 to 11. Mr Gaunson, Mr Graves and othe:s then pursued “stonewall” tactics, and the House continued sitting till 5 o’clock this morning, when the Opposition collapsed, and the resolutions were put and carried. Mr Berry, as Postmaster-General, has ordered the detention of letters addressed to the advertiser of a sweep on the Melbourne Cup, whose advertisement is published as from Dunedin. July 5. It is now known that the student at the Hospital, who was recently taken seriously ill, is undoubtedly suffering from smallpox. Another case of what is apparently the same disease is also reported. A Government Land Act Amendment Bill has been issued. It provides for reserving 10,000,000 acres, to be leased for 14 years, in pastoral blocks of 1000 acres, and for creating agricultural blocks for a similar term, all improvements reverting to the Crown.

Sydney, July 4

A heavy gale has been -experienced along the coast, and the American ship, Susan Gilmore, of 1204 tens, has been driven ashore at Newcastle, and is expected to become a total wreck. All the crew were saved.

Alfred Kemp, chief oilier of the I lish barque Hudson, now lying at lingtnn, on Saturday committer trial for refusing to assist a police stable who was being maltreated by t of the crew of the vessel, .

A large fiqei occurred at Cook’s H Hawera, last Saturday night,' the j being completely gutted. The instir is £IOOO in the'Northern office or stock; £7OO in the New Zealand O' buildintr, and £SOO in the Natron? tin- building. A man nmied .Tin Kflroy.,' who,'was' sleeping in one ol rwoms, was suffocated, «n i his b >dy found slightly ehaired. He appear* have been dazed by the smoke, <t was found on: his hands and knees oi floor.- He could easily have esc otherwise.