AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

♦ [MR S.B. HAUBOTO, FROM BTDNIT.] Stdnkt, Bth May. The revenue atill keeps up, and returns for the last fonr months show nearly •£400,000 oyer estimate. The Trewurer's estimate for the year was nearly eight and a-half millions. , . The pilot steamer haa returned, bringing no information respecting the boat's crew of the Nightingale. It is now feared that the/ are lost. The fire seamen who brought the brlgantine into port had a hard time, and were in the midst of constant danger. All the defenoe preparations are now complete. The si. Massillia is completed as a orniser, and the John Elder is undergoing alteration. The condition of the Bo.t»ny dama. upon whioh the whole water supply of the oity and suburbs depends, is creating some uneuinesn, as the rainfall ia fully fifty per cent, lets than this period last year. All the inhabitants have been placed on a third supply. Bain has been threatening, bat continues to hold off. A collision ocourrod off Newcastle between the steamera Woosnng and Tenterden. Neither was greatly injured. The German frigate Stoaoh ha 3 arrived, towing the corvette Mairo, which recently struok on a reef amongst the inlands. She will be repaired here. Bitfßßim?, Bth May. The reoorfc of the Polynesian Commtßßion shows that the recruiting system has led to great abuses. The oases of the Clara, liiziie, and Hopeful disolose a record of treachery, inoluding kidnapping and murder. The Government are determined to return the whole of the islanders introduced. Melbourne, Bth May. The Premier has reoeived oommonioations , from the -Governments of South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania expressing opposition to olause 31 introduced in the Federation Enabling Bill providing that any colony withdrawing from the Council may abrogate the laws passed during Federation. The oolony is to be appealed to for subBoriptionß ia aid of the Gordon memorial. Hob art, Bth May. Twenty-five out of the hundred boxes of nalmon ova received turned out a splendid ■nooeia. Three-fourths of the ova are alive and in excellent condition. Parliament has been furthor prorogued to the 12th of Jnne.