INTERCOLONIAL

Evening Star, Issue 7160, 14 March 1887, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL

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TYPHOID FEVER IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, March 13. (Received Maroh H. 1887, at 1.45 a.m.) On the arrival of the steamer South Australia, from Adelaide, to-day, eight typhoid patients were removed from the vessel to the hospital. They were all seamen belonging to the steamer. Since the Ist January over 600 cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Victoria, 160 of which proved fatal. THE WEATHER IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, March 14. 'Received Maroh 14, 1887, at 1.20 p.m.) Heavy rains are reported from many parts of the Colony. A cyclone has been experienced at Bnrketown, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, but no serious damage occurred. A THOROUGH SCOUNDREL. MELBOURNE, March 14. The police have ascertained that Charles Augustus Smyth, the local-preacher, who on Tuesday last was sentenced to five years, imprisonment for defrauding Retallick, a new arrival in Melbourne, of L 1,200, had previously imposed upon several people in Dunedin and Christchurch, where he was suspected of incendiarism. He was recently married to a girl, his wife and children being alive, and will probably be indicted for bigamy.