AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5138, 21 February 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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> [Par s.s. Botomahaßa, at the Bluff.] j MELBOURNE, February 15. A -retook plaoe at Bohuca on Monday j night. Sight buildings wore destroyed. Some of the owners are left penniless. I Mr Wades, secretary to the Board of was suspended yesterday for hia paction ia regard to the eradication of vines, mo., which met with the strong disapproval of Ejthe Minister of Lands. fe. The revenue returns are very ■atiafaotory. yEhe tents of leasehold property were £22 000 [Jpehind on tha 28th of January. » Tho agents of the Sobraon say there is no gpauee for alarm for the safety of that vessel, ft the weather has been fine along the coast, he headboard was probably washed away. The question of removing the Melbourne gToipital is occupying the attention of the Kentral Board of Health. The site in the kßoyal Park is favored. The erysipelas quee* nion is being fully ventilated both inside and gbutside the institution. | Biahop Crane, of Sandhurst, who leaves for Blame to-day, waa presented with a purse of a Khouiand sovereigns. W~ SYDNEY, February 15. H Mr Bent, Minister of Raj-ways, and the H-leers of the Victorian Railway Department lire making enquiries into the working of the JKailway system in this colony. j ■ Layoock will probably soon leave for EngBand to assist Trickett, and will likely oha.Strafe the principal eouliers. & <Xhe coach from Mount Brown waa oomSpelled to travel ninety miles without water. jgThe diggers hare been compelled to leave p-ount Brows, and a serious loss of life, it ia Bleared, wffl exuua through the want of water. f ,■':. ADETiAID-^February 18... \% The second daughter of Governor Jervoiae fewas married yeaterday to the Rev. W. Cuff, laon of the Dean of You,

Crown Lands, who jently returned froig the North, found that a complaints of tbe Selectors were well inded. The oountry was in c. bad state, ie Ministerial party cii for Port irwin met with very rough weather on the leensland coast, and the position at one a. was somewhat critical.