AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2757, 24 November 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MKi-BounSE, isovomber 22,. ■ The proposal of Sir Henry Parkes to alter tho name of New South Wales .to Australia lias excited much, ridicule, and adverso comment throughout Victoria, ■ The Naval Defence Bill passed all stages in the Legislative Assembly without Opposition. .Sidney, November 22. The' Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, gave notice in the Logislative Assembly to-d'ay of a Bill changing the name of this colony to " Australia." . Heis'dan-e, November 28.'. . In the Legislative Assembly last night, the Naval Defence Bill, after'tho most.,, determined ' opposition, ■ passed the second reading by a majority of four, the numbers being—For the second reading, 23; against, 19.

" FJBIS AT BARNtJM'S MENAGiilillE, ' • NmvYorii, November 1, Barninn's well-known liionngerie was destroyed by (ire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, yesterday. .Three, of. the elephants, and all the lions, tigers, and other quadruped* connected with' the show were; ln'ir.ed to d"atli. Thirty elephants, terrilied by the conflagration, stampeded through the streets of I lie town, but were vltiiuatoly captured,

DYNAMITIS.RB IN'LONDON. >.- - • LWbok,' November 21, ' Two Americans-named Oallnn and Hai'ki'iii, were .charged at the Bow street Police Court to-day, with having dynamic in I heir posses-lion, and with plot!iii» to'-earry out explosion* Both of the accused were reman-ied.