AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

? NEW SOUTH WALES DEFENCE. RUSH FOR NEW ZEALAND PETROLEUM SHARES. ¦ INFANTICIDE IN AN HOTEL. AN EARLY-CLOSING RIOT. [UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. | Sydney, 14th July. At the Orange commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne, on Tuesday, at tho old Exhibition Buildings, Prmce Alfred Park, 5000 were present. The steamer Ocean returned from Melbourne with 200 Chinese for this port, and was placed in quarantine pending instructions from the Government. In the Legislative Council, the second reading of the Chinese Restriction Bill was moved by the Premier. Many members objected to tho bill as sensational legislation. The report of tho Military Defence Commission recommends the increase in the number of the Permanent Artillery to 440 men, officers included, without delay. When the whole scheme of defence is completad there will be twelve distinct batteries, viz., five at South Head, two at Middle Head, three at St. George's Head, one at Bradley's Head, and one at Still Point. In these 45 guns are to be mounted. The Commission also reoommend the formation of a reserve force, and in addition to the paid forces, the functions of a purely volunteer force, not exceeding 1200 men, should be affiliated to the volunteer militia. They add that two gunboats, in addition to well-designed torpedo boats of great speed, ought to be procured in England. Melbourne, 14th July. The Board of Health met on Tuesday to consider measures for the suppression of small-pox if it should appear in Melbourne. It was decided that all vessels arriving from China be quarantined at Point Nepean, and detained until bedding, clothing, and passengers have been disinfected. All vessels from New South Wales are to be stopped for inspection at the quarantine grounds. A contagious diseases hospital i* to be at once provided in a suitable and isolated placs. 15,000 shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company of New Zealand were placed on the Melbourne market yesterday, and applied for within two hours, being tho balance of 33,000 previously allotted. A woman named Wilson has been committed for trial for infanticide of a cliili three weeks old, which was found in a carpet bag in the passage of aa hotel. The child died shortly after its release from the bag. The woman was traced and apprehended in Tasmania, and brought over under arrest. A disturbance occurred at Collingwood through a mob attempting to entorce early closing. Several windows were smashed. Amongst the passengers by tho steamer Venetia is Major-General Feilding, who proceeds to Queensland as representative of London capitalists interested, in tha TransContinental railway line from Roma to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Adelaide, 14th July. In the Assembly, the Government stated it intended to introduce a Lite Assurance Bill, if the business of the session would permit. The Chinese Immigration Bill was read a third time.