AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5231, 29 May 1888, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

[FSB, FBESS ASSOCIATION. —COI'YKIOHT.J

(Received May 28, 10.40 p.m.)

RUINED FOR LIFE

Sydney, May 28. The victim of tlio outrage in the police cell is rccovciiug, but he is ruined for life. BUNNY. The rabbit commissioners have reached Silverton, Avhero experiments have been made with tho disease discovered by Drs. Butcher and Ellis. The Commissioners were greatly impressed with the effectiveness of the disease as a rabbit destroying agent.

CIIINKIES,

The steamer Chang Sha, from China, lias a number of Chinese, passengers for New Zealand. There aro :i booked for Lyttelton, 43 for Groymouth, 5 for Dunedin, aud 9 for Wellington.

THE MINING FRAUD

At a meeting of the Muritoto Mining Company to-day tho syndicate declined to accept any recoupment for their outlay. The money will be returned to the shuioholders to-morrow.

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS

BiusiiANK, May _8. Tne general elections arc finished. The Opposition havo a majority of eighteen. The Government will not resign until after the moating of Parliament on tho 12th of Juno.

FATAL DROWNING

Cook Town, May 28.

Two men named Gwiltzaky and Monteith wero drowned in the harbor to-day through the upsetting of a boat in a squall.

HORSES FOR INDIA.

MelhoubnKj May -.3

The Government have received intimation from tJie Indian Government that 900 liorsos are rotiuircd for India at an average price of _53, that sum to include tho cost of delivery in India.

ANTI-CHINESE CONFERENCE. Arrangements aro now nearly completed far holding a conference on tho Chinese difficulty about tho middle of June. The uetual date of the meeting is not yet definitely fixed, as it is not known avliuu tho Now Zealand delegate will arrive.