AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

\TXH B.S: TABAYfrKRA JtT AtfcKlXNb:! [Bt Tii,saßAPH.| fttNITBD rRIBB ASSOCIATION. - . Stdnit, 27th November. Parliamont, after a short finanoial session, prorogued to-day, and will not most again until April or May. The Premier, sinoe his return from hia tour, is greatly improved. „ Mr. Dalley, Attorney-General, lias b»en oonfined to hia bod during the last few dayi. ■ • The American warship Iroqnois leavoa tor day for Hobart, where sho stays about ten days, and then prooeedß to Anokland. The jury disagreed at the inquost in regard to the suspioious doath of Baohel Kippon at the North Shore. Another smallpox oaso ia roportod, but all particulars ore withheld. The patient in quarantino is progressing favourably. The disconti manoo of wood-paving in Sydnoy ia recommended, and asphalto suggested. Tho crops in most parts of the country are good. BaisBANK, 27th November. In tho Assembly, Mr. M'llwnuth foun fault with Commodore Krskine's proclamation in Now Guinea. The roal reason hod been ignored : it was not, a* stated, for tho proteotion of the natives, but entirely for tho proteotion of those colonies. Melbourne, 27th November. Sir W. Mitchell had a Tory large funeral. On the proposal of the New Guinea vot*, the Government will urge to keep on agi> tating for the annexation of the whole of New Guinea and tho Paoifio Islands. The Governor, aooompanied by the Duke of Manchester, visited Castlemaine. All tho bootmakers belonging to the Union are now looked out.