AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. [PER ALHAMHRA, AT THE BLUFF.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 19 December 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. [PER ALHAMHRA, AT THE BLUFF.]

» SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND LOSS OP LIFE. THE MURDERERS OF MRS. WATSON. BOILER EXPLOSION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [Bt Telegraph. | i united press aBBociation.j Mklbobbnb, 10th Dooember. Tho Committoe of the Council recommend that the first polling for the elections for the Council be held in November next yew. A bill for tho abolition of pensions has passed through Committee in tho Assembly. It will not affect the interests of any person at present in the sorvicn. Tho bill brought in to suppress gambling by sweeps met with opposition, and was poatponod. The revenue returns roooived daily at the Customs are very satisfactory. On the 6th, £10,780 were received, which is the, largest ever collected for one day. Professor Manson has oommonced legal proceedings against Professor Klkmgton for tho recent assault at the University. Heavy rainß fell yesterday, and a Bovero thundoistr;.,! took placo on Wednesday. Mr. Bell, i; well-known resident at Mount Maroer, v'»ilo driving with his wife in a. buggy, wa< struck by lightning and killed. At Talbot a girl, nged 13, wa<; atmok by lightoing dnring the sanio storm and oarried home paralysed. Sir. Mation, formerly Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, oommittcd suioide in a horrible mauner. He was of unsound mind. Brisbane, 10th Deoember. Govornor Kennedy has reoalvod a telegram from Lord OlanwHiam, dated from Shanghai, stating that the Dotaohed Squadron has been dispersed. Three of the murderers of Mrs. Watson who have been discovered hare boon punished. ApKiiAiDR, 10th Daoembor. During nine months of the present year 35,915 aores of laud have boen sold for •£(J4,396 cash, .and on deferred payment* 497,569 aores tot an aggregate of j8901,160. A boilor at somo bone-crushiug mills afc Dulwioh burst and wrecked tho promises, but no one was iojurod.