Late Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4590, 20 September 1883, Page 2

Late Australian News.

The end of November ia fixed for the holding of the Federal ConTention. The representatives of the whole of the colonies will meat at Sydney and discuss questions bearing directly on federation —annexation of New Guinea and other Pacific Islands. The number of delegates is aofc yet fixed. Victoria,-New South Wales, at«d Queensland are favourable to sending four each; whilst New Zealand, Tasmania, aqd South Australia are disposed to Kxaifc the number to two. Fiji has been invited to join the convention. Western Australia will ssnd one delegate. The Bishop of Melbourne has been making a tour of all the Sunday-schools around Melbourne, satisfying himself as to the mode of conducting them and com* paring the various systems. Mr Service, at the request of the Chamber of Manufactures, intends to take the earliest opportunity of communicating with the A<>ent-General as to the expediting of the transmissign from London to Melbourne of specifications of pa'ents registered in Great Britain. A curious ruse is reported. A man named Ernest Wood was found in a help* less state in Sydney. He states' ha was kicked by an unknown man in the stomach, knocked down and liquid poured in his mouth and eyes, depriving him of his senses. His body shows marks of violence, and he- has not yet recovered speech.

The Custom duties taken at Sydney ia August were the largest ever, collected in one month. The amount was £122 577. Mr Thomas Boyd, the sole survivor of the first party of white men wbo crossed the Kiver Murray, is to receive an annuity of £25 from the New South Wales Government). A second expedition'by the French war steamer Bruac has resulted ia complete success in recovering from the island of Vanikoro the- remains of the wreck of the celebrated La Perouse. The Bruat has brought to Noumea three cannon, three anchors (one of which was broken in halves hy the dynamite required to it from incrustations of coral during several generations), some sheets of tin, and some tubes of a pump. A public demonstration for the reception of these interesting relie3-, was organised at Noumea and attended by every service military, naval, and civil. Two salutes of 21 cannons were fired on there landing, and at the conclusion a stirring address was made by the Governor, who. was surround by his staff and all the high officials in Noumea. It was solemn and impressive. The relics will he sent to Prance. Sip William "Robinson, sneaking iri* Adelaide, referred to the 'annexation question, and said if the Home Govern ~ inernt did not immediately approve of the i action of the colonies, the latter ought not !to take umbrage. The Government must oonsider the interests of the Empire as a whole. Beferring (o federation, he said he,was a warm advocate of the movement, but he considered they should not try for too much. He would not advocate complete .federation of the colonies/similar to Canada. It was not necessary for the good of the colonies that their individual. ity should be destroyed. Religious intoxicatioa, like alcoholic, usually ends in satiety. "The new things, says the Bishop of Melbourne, "become as common and uninteresting as the old ones; with every new sensation you want a stronger, till at last, like the drunkard or opmm-eater, you destroy the very toolings which you over-stimulated, and sink down into a'jaded, diseased, useless, discontented misanthropy."

The Bad and Worthless I are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is . positive proof that the remedy imitated is of \ the highest value. As soon a3 it had' been | tested and proved by the whole world that Hop ' Bitterß was the purest, beet and most valuable family medicine on earth, mony imilatione sprung up and begun to sieal the notices in ■wbicb tho pr<?Bß and the people of the countrj had• expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce Buffering invalids „ to use their stuff instead, expecting to molt*-5-jnoaey on the credit; and good name of H. B. .'J^Many others started nostrums put up in sim- ( : ilmr style to H. 8., with Tariou*ly Revised ; ironies in which the word " Hop " or " Hops " used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitterß. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those. with the word "Hop" or "Hops" ia their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but gennine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white lebel,, and l)r Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing iniimitationß or counterfeits. ♦

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