Late Australian News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 159, 30 October 1896, Page 2

Late Australian News.

(Evening Post.) Water for domestic purposes was lately being sold at Carlisle, (N.S.W.) at 2d per bucket. Recent hailstorms at Bombala, (N.S.W.) were in some places so severe as to kill lambs and poultry. At the inquest on the death of a marker at the rifle butts at Inverell the jury added a rider to the verdict of Accidental Death, that blame was attachable to the authorities for the defective state of the mantlet. I>r Ross has introduced a Bill in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales to prohibit the use of tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes among juvenile members of the community. Owing to the rates of wages now ruling at Newcastle, the miners say they are compelled to work nine and ten hours a dav in order to provide the necessaries of life. Lord Brassey and a party have been on a visit to the irrigation settlements, Mildura and Remnark. The Tasmanian Legislative Council has refused to increase the salaries of members from JfcuO to .£IOO. There are 5-> farmers in the wheat trust formed in the Hopetoun district, of Victoria. They have agreed to contribute to the trust one-fourth of the total production for export. A destructive windstorm at Albury almost completely destroyed what little fruit had been left after the ravages of a hailstorm. The new Babies' Home at Brisbane Cottage, Knox - street, Newtown - road, Sydney, which is under the management, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, has been officially opened. There are 130 inmates, mostly the children of single women. A miner named Michael Bennett, at Burra, on the Upper Murray, has received £SO damages from another miner named John Burke, who falsely accused him of robbing a mine. Several suburban municipalities arc considering the advisableness of municipal amalgamation with the city of Melbourne, with a view to greater economies in working. The thermometer registered 92'4deg. in Sydney oil the 13th October. This is unusually high for this time of the year, and only eight times previously has the temperature exceeded OOdeg. in October, Stanbury avows his intention, defeated by Towns, the Newcastle scuiler, fo giving up rowing altogether. At the Walgett (N.S.W.) Folice Court John Holmes was fined i-10 for presenting a loaded rifle at a constable. The prize money given at the V.A.T.C. meeting amounted to and of this the Sydney horses won no less than ,£'<3475. Owing to a disagreement with the Speaker, the members of the New South Wales Parliamentary Refreshment CoinCommittee have resigned. The Colonial Secretary of New South Wales has promised a deputation from tl e United Friendly Societies of Sydney that he will lay before his colleagues their request for a site on which to erect a dispensary.