AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4299, 11 October 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, October 4,

At the Hunt Club races, at Flemingtoii, on Saturday, Alhambra won the Hunt Club Steeplechase ; Allusion, the Flying Stakes Open Steeplechase ; 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 the detectives employing men who persuade released prisoners to commit fresh crimes, in order that the detectives may get the credit of finding them out.

The Aurora Australia on Monday was vecy brilliant all over Australia. The firebells were rung here thinking it was a large fire. , The doubt as to whether the Hamilton rase was really smallpox seems difficult to settle. The patient died, and was buried twelve feet deep in lime. Dr Youllis now alone in the opinion that the diseaie was chicken-pox, several other doctors being unanimously or opinion that it was true variola.

With reference to the arrest of William Hill, the manager of the Keedy Creek branch of the Colonial Bank, charged with stealing £1048, which Hill alleged was stolen during the night of the 11th of August, it now transpires that the prisoner has been for some time past engaged in extensive mining speculations. The bank authorities have a complete chain of circumstantial evidence against Hill.