AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2434, 6 December 1892, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Dec. 2. In the Legislative Assembly a private Bill has been introduced to legalise the totalisator. It also empowers the Postmaster-General to prevent the promotion of sweeps through the medium of the Post Office. An outbreak of phylloxera has occurred among the vines at Seven Hills. The Government will shortly enquire into the feasibility of establishing a federal arsenal for the manufacture of all munitions of war. Dec. 3. The Attorney-General has found a bill of murde- against Mackin and his wife in connection with the death of a baby for which the Coroner's Court found a verdict of manslanghter only. Melbourne, Dec. 2.

Kingston, the well known New Zealand champion cyclist, died to-day from injuries received by a fall through a dog colliding with his bicycle. Dec. 3.

What is believed to be the original deed of purchase of the site of the city of Melbourne has been in the public library for years. In coij'section with the Hawthorne mystery a Sydney resident named Wilsici is reported as missing. He was a:«;•.tilted and robbed, and gave a mai! in charge for the offence. At the trial Wilson did not appear to prosecute, and a warrant was issued for his arrest as an unwilling witness, but he was never found. The detectives have received two anonymous letters concluding with the words " Beware of Jack, the Ripper." Adelaide. Dec. 4. A child, residing at Petersburgh, who was found suffering from smallpox, was a passenger by the Karlsruhe from Germany. It is supposed that she contracted the disease from a a female passenger booked to Sydney who frequenntly nursed her. [A Sydney message says the woman who nursed the child has been found. She suffered from an eruptive disease, after leaving Genoa, but is now well, and the steamer Karlsruhe, underwent fumigation for cholera. The Sydney Board of Health have decided to take no further steps in the matter.] LABOUR, ETC. London, Dec. 1.

Mr W. B. Perceval, Sir E. C. N. Braddon, and Sir Malcolm Eraser, have expressed their unwillingness to confer with Lord Mayor Knell, with regard to his action in the matter of emigration until they have consulted their respective Governments. Sir J. C. Bray, Agent-General for South Australia, declares that in his interview with a press representative he stated that there was no opening for laborers in the colony which he represents, but the interviewer reiterates that Sir John encouraged a certain class to emigrate. A thousand unemployed assembled on Tower Hill at midnight, and marched to the West End where speeches of a violent character were delivered. The procession was a harmless affair, the police having forbidden the men to carry torches. Sydney, Dec. 4.

One of the principal shippers of frozen meat in Newcastle having declined to comply with the demand of the men for Is 6d per hour in shipping meat, trouble is expected when the next vessel arrives to load.