INTERCOLONIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 7429, 26 January 1888, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrioht.J [Per Press Association. J THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. SYDNEY, January 26. January 20,1898, at 1 p.m.) Visitors have been arriving in this city all the week, and the hotels are overcrowded and unable to provide sufficient accommodation. The illuminations and decorations which take place this evening are on a most magnificent scale, and they are expected to far surpass those shown on the occasion of the Queen’s Jubilee. The weathef.' continues fine, but rain is reported to be coming down the coast. SPORTING. SYDNEY, January 26, Ben Bolt, having won the Parramatta Handicap, has shortened in price for the Anniversary Handicap, and has been supported down to 4to 1. The Queen has also been strongly supported at 6 to 1, RABBIT EXTERMINATION. MELBOURNE. January 26. Mr Backhead, of the Rabbit Department, is of opinion that the chicken cholera proposed to be introduced by M. Pasteur for the extermination of rabbits will prove dangerous to other animals, and also to birds. He recommends that experts should be sent to Paris to consult with M. l^asteur.

INTERPROVIMCIAL. [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, January 26. To-day is being observed as a close holiday on account of the Australian Centenary. The banks, offices, shops, and schools are closed. Two thousand people have gone to Lake Forsyth regatta. The Lancaster Park bicycle races and Australians' picnic at Lansdowne are also well attended. The weather is fine. WELLINGTON, January 26. A girl named Clara Mong Chong, wife of a Chinaman, has been arrested on suspicion of being the mothsr of the child found in the sugar-bag in Evans Bay recently. She was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, and remanded. George Barnes has been arrested on a charge of stealing L9O from his brother. A man named Dyer is reported as missing. He was supposed to have been suffering from religious mania. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 20. A meeting convened by the Mayor was held last night to consider matters relating to the harbor. Mr Samuel, M.H.R., who was absent on a tour, unexpectedly returned, and his presence altered the complexion of the meeting. A resolution was moved by Mr Standish, to which Mr Samuel moved an amendment, which was carried, to the effect that a committee be appointed to co-operate with the Harbor Board to frame a petition to the Government, stating the ground for assistance in protecting the works, and for relief to the settlers from harbor rating.