AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1542, 20 January 1887, Page 1

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Melbourne, Jan. 17. ! . The smallpox cases at Sorrento are j progressing favorably. No fresh cases | are. reported, 1 ■ 1 i ' Jan. 113. j An express train between Adelaide and Melbourne : commences running tomorrow. By this means mails between j tbe two cities will be delivered t day earlier than hitherto. ■v l The Waihora;sailed this afternoon for ’ the Bluff. , j Sydney, jan, s 17. Tlie, barque Centurion, wbicii; was i wrecked yesterday at the North Head, * was ootward bound in tow ot the tug. The. warp connecting the. two yeseels , broke, when the Centurion drifted on i tbe rocks, and disappeared in half-an-hour. Tbe vessel was not insured, • | A large crowd of men on strike at * Bulli impeded tbe new bands who were | proceeding to work this morning and • persuaded them to join in the strike. i To-day a goods train ran into a pas- j senger train, causing damage to the 1 extent of; £4OOO, and blocking the line for several hours. No one was injured by the accident, Sir Henry Parkes is engaged in forming a Ministry. He has not yet completed it, but as l far as is known it will be composed of the following members :—Sir Henry Parkes, Premier and Colonial Secretary ; Mr W. J. Foster, Attorney-General; the other members to whom offices are not yet allotted ( being Messrs G. H. Reid, Francis !

Abigal, J. N. Young, ;W. Clarke, J. Tnghs, G, A. Lloyd, and J, T, Burns. Parliament will be opened by commisr aion to-morrow, and then adjourned for the re-election of Ministers. • The Wairarapa arrived yesterday. Jan. 18. Parliament was opened by commission > at noon to-day. 1 Sir Henry Parkes has not yet i completed the formation of the new Ministry. Reports from the quarantine’ station , continue of a favorablecharacter^; Hobart,’Jam-18. Mr Justice Qiblin, who has been ill for some time, died yesterday. I