AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 976, 17 January 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Rotomahana at the Bluff.) (UNITJiD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) " " " Melbourne, Jan. 10. The small-pox outbreak on board the Garonne is-more sofious than was at first : supposed/ Dr. Bulmer, Health Officer at the •Quarantine Station-,, reported last' night that two oases wero becoming convalescent, John Morgan was attacked on the 4th inst., AlbertCapstipk on the 7thj Mary ,01eary on the '/th- the raqpt.serious case of all, being now. in the semi-con-fluent stage—and James Crowe if as also attacked on- the Wi,' making six cases in all under treatment. Every possible precaution is taken to prevent contagion. A. case of salmon ova aboard, forthe Otago Acclimatisation Society, was excluded from the fumigation process. The order that H.M.S, Emerald was to proceed to New Zealand was countermanded. The Wolverene's company leave by the steamer Khedive for England. Commander Dawson, of the Miranda, has been promoted to be poat-oaptain. He is succeeded by Commander Bruce of the Cormorant- Lieut. Maxwell, "of the Sandfly, takes command of the Cormorant. The schooners Alacrity and Sandfly, will be sold oat of the service. The dbstruction of all the vines in Geelong district will be completed at the end of next month. About £25,000 will be required for compensation. The ship Melanope, from Liverpool, went ashore yesterday on the Pope's Eye Port Philip Bay. , A scare has been raised in consequence of some remarks of Dr Zoal, the oity ooroner, that the Melbourno Hospital was saturated with erysipelas, and, that the building oqght to be pulled down. He attributed a-number of deaths ,in/ L the Hospital to this cause. !' There aie49 entries for the Austialian Oup, ,and 89 for the Newmarket Handicap, induction nominations from all tli»

colonies.; The "amount pf stake's paidaf the Champion meeting wits 13668. • ?f' Large quantities of grain have arrived ' ,frpni the country, anil-vessels have com- >. menced.to load fori England. ' . % late telegram froin Mauritius to 27th December states,that Bugar-making was retarded by the wet weather. The market was bare of brewing crystals, Two vessels sailed for Melbourne, two were loading, and two were ohartered. Efforts aro being made to induce either Murray Smith or Francis to accept the Agent-Generalship, in view of impending financial transactions. . . • -Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the unsatisfactory- reault,of the late inter- : colonialjsricket match, and the question ,ia. discussed as 4>' how to : curtail long scores, so aa to bring the game within reasonable limits."?"' .Aseriouß by the telegraph operator in' I bulletin from, the quarantine station. iPat appeared in thepapersas" many clearly" sickening for the decease/ should['have, been .''Mary Cleary." ...J ' - The trial of preserved Hat by Hugo : Jannaschs' patentsonserveaalt has proved most successful, it is not-intended; for' export trade, but for general übbV By the process fresh ineatispreservedcfpr soveral. days by simple meahsv' . ;• . r "■ ■'■ ' ' «dr ■;;•'.