Australian News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2879, 21 April 1888, Page 2

Australian News.

Sydney, April 10. It is believed that the shrinkage of silve}' stock in this und other colonies yesterday amouuced in tlio aggregate to a million and a half, The market to-day shows a slightly improved tendency. The Rabbit Conference lias discussed the disease which has developed among the rabbits in New Zealand, and confounded it with chicken cholera. It has been decided to obtain all possible information on the subject. The Broken Hill shaves are quoted at £3lO,

Sydney, April 19. The Government intend to introduce a Bill providing for the payment of coroners' juries, and- to give coroners discretionary power in empanelling juries of five, six, nine, or twelve, . April 20. _ Professor Liversinge, of the University of Sydney, in his report to the Senate, suggests that the formal matriculation examination should be dispensed with, except in medical science and engineering. Brisbane, April 19. Rabbits are spreading with great rapidity in the interior, and are now eighty miles north of the furthest point previously reached by them. The Brisbane Tramway Company propose to substitute Men electric trams for the present horse system. MuLijouiiNii, April 19. There was a very narrow escape of a serious collision between the new P. and 0. steamer Oceana and the steamer Casino in the Bay eaiiy this morning. Particulars have not yet been allowed to transpire, but it is known that a panic was occasioned, and that the passengers ayer that the vessels actually struck each other. Volger, a bookmaker, who was forcibly ejected from the course at the last meeting, has recovered £25 damages and costs against the Victorian Amateur Turf Club. He claimed £SOO damages, The Judge, in award | ing damages, said that the Club had no power to eject the plaintiff, who refused to abstain from betting and was • thereupon ejected by force. ] A large frontage in Elizabeth-street i has been sold at £I2OO per foot. I Scott's hotel, with 00ft frontage to ' Collins-street, was submitted toauo- | tion to-day, and passed m at £IOO,OOO, ; A Royal Commission, appointed to I inquire into tlio sanitary condition of ;

the city and ■subm'ba, Mr Crawford Barlow, and English authority, who recommended tho* adoption of the "water carriage system . • of draining.