AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 97, 22 October 1881, Page 2

A USTRALIAN.

Sydney, 21st October. Tho Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes a paragraph stating that it understands that an action for libol by Mr. Cook, the managor of the Town and Country Bank, against Mr. Larnach (of New Zealand),, is , pending. Damages will, it is stated, belaid at £5000. Arrived, this afternoon — Pacific Mail Company's steamship City of Sydney, from San Francisco, via Auckland. Melbourne, 21st October. Mr. Ramsay's motion, condemning the appointments by the Government to tin Education Commission, will come on in the Assembly on Tnesday next. A heavy southerly gale, accompanied with inuoh rain, Waß experienced in harbour and on the coast generally last night. Thirty small craft wero sunk or beached near Sandridge. Heavy rain also fell at several inland towns, and at Romsey. thirty -nine miles north of this city, four inches of snow fell. This Day. As the steamship Rotorua, just arrived from the Bluff, was proceeding to the wharf yesterday, she fouled tho " Anchor " dredge. She has sinco been dockod, and it has been ascertained that all the propeller blades are broken and the rudder damaged. Her departure is indefinitely postponed, as considerablo repairs aro necessary. Adelaidb, 21st October. Wheat, per bushel, 5s sd ; a better demand is being experienced. Town flour, per ton, £12 5s to £12 10s; country brands, £11 10s. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide, 47s 6d ; ditto, from outports, 50s. Brisbane, This Day. The British Indian Steam Navigation Company's steamship Almora, from Batavia, has been quarantined at Cookfcown for typhoid fever, of which there aro three cases on board.

ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST MR. 1 " " LARNACH. HEAV^ GALE AND SNOWSTORM. THIRTY CRAFT WRECKED. ACCIDENT TO THE S.S. ROTORUA. QUARANTINING OF A STEAMER. I reuters telegrams.]