AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (Per Ringarooma).

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AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (Per Ringarooma).

? Melbourne, 19th August. There was a majority in favor of the Government on the want of confidence motion of 12, in a house of 70 members. Since then the ordinary business has been proceeded with. The Government have not abandoned the Stevenson case, as the matter will shortly come before the Supreme Court. Esther Grey, who assaulted Lady Bowen, has been sent to the Lunatic Asylum. A man named Walker was five days and nights at the bottom of an abandoned shaft at Inglewood without food. Lillywhite's cricket team leaves London on the 20th September. The names include Southerton, Pooley, Jupp, Charlwood, Greenwood, Selby, Emment, Uglett, Hill, Alfred Shaw, and prohably Lockwood. Another effort is to be made to open the Publia Library, National Museum, and Picture Gallery on Sundays. Dr. Brancy's nomination paper for the Cen- | tral Province in the Legislative Council was handed in just on the stroke of six o'clock, and the Returning Officer decided not to receive it, as it should have been in before six, and not while the clock was striking. No less than eight Chinese lottery banks are now in full operation in the city. The proposal to give religious instruction in schools before school hours, as well as after, is strongly opposed. A Veterinary Commission has been appointed to inquire into and report upon the alleged new sheep disease in the Western district.