AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 October 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

• <—• FIRS AT MELBOURNE,—£SOOO DAMAGE. : BRUTAL MURDER AT SYDNEY. SCARCITY OP RAIN-CROPS SUFFERING. •Melbourne, Oct. 10. A fire broke out at Messrs Wilkin, Crosbie & Co.'s premises in ElizabethStreet, which did £SOOO worth of damage before it oould be subdued. There were several thousand spectators at the scene. ' r : —— Sydney, Oct, Bth, A most brutal oiurdnr haßbeen committed at Mouut Qjmt^/^elderlf tnia «i (sand

and his body coverod with bruises. His hands alio wore injured, as though he had held them up to protect his head. Traces of a severe struggle were visible near the place whore he lay. A school teacher who exhibited sign? of having been in a severe struggle has been arrested HI) MlS[liciil!],' Adelaide, Oct, Bth, The want of rain in the northern districts seriously imperils the crops, ENGLISH. I MUTINY ON A MAN-OF-WAR. EMIGRATION TO UNITED STATES. RECALL OF SIR A, GORDON. London, Oct. 10. The Governor of New Zealand will visit England next Sprint;, and his return is doubtful. It is possible that further proferment is awaiting him at the hands of the present Government, Mutiny has occurred on board the ship Rambler, 'of three guns, stationed ofi the ooast of Arabia. Emigration to the United States continues undiminished, 35,000 emigrants j landed in New York last month, and 34,000 the preceding month.

SOME. The Pope seriously considers transferring the head-quarters of the Holy See to Vienna. RUSSIA. A secret Society has been formed at St. Petersburg for the purpose of frustrating Nihilist plots, UNITED STATES. The plot to murder President Arthur wis frustrated by the arrest of the conspirators.