AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (Per 8.8. Manapouri, at the Bluff.)

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (Per 8.8. Manapouri, at the Bluff.)

LBr Tei/egbaph.J UNITED PRESS ABSOCIATION.] Melboubne, 3rd May. The inland parcels poBt comes into force after Ist July. Julian Thomas, better known as " The Vagabond," has brought an action for i! 2000 damages against the Wesleyan Spectator for defamation of character. A Jubilee meeting is to be held on Thursday next to consider Lady Loch's proposal for establishing a Queen's Fund for assisting women and children. A successful conversazione was held in the Town Hall as a welcome to Bishop (Joe. There were many persons representing other denominations present. The question of establishing a penny postage, at any rate with a limit to large cities of the colony, is engaging the attention of the Government. Stdnet, 3rd May. Government intend abolishing the present system of tramways, and will possibly lease the whole of them to private enterprise. The brewers have notified the Colonial Treasurer that they will resist collection on , excise duty on beer, and will use force if necessary. Pkbth, 3rd May. Messrs. Findlay and Barnes, engaged in the pearl shell business, have called a meeting of their creditors, owing to the disaster on the coast. The West Australian Government proposes to draft the unemployed into the interior to construct public works.

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