AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 296, 13 April 1897, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GENERAL ITEMS. / IV#* /V' ,|vw • ■••ill' )}. 1 <•/ Svi-NKV. April I*2. The Hon. J. H. Want. AttorneyGeneral, promised a deputation of newspaper representatives that the Government would introduce a hill to amend tbc law of libel, to bring it into conformity of the Act The representatives of all the daily newspapers propose interviewing Sutler, also the detective-. on the arrival of the Monowai from Sun Francisco. Thi- day. There are 110 -igns of the drought breaking vij». The heat and dust are stifling- Eighty-eight decrees were registered in the city yesterday, a record (or mid April. Hearts from the country are generally of a dis- | tressing nature. Mu.i km- . April 12. A warrant lias been i- -u. d fur Unarrest of "William of the liirchip I'ranch of the Commercial ikmk for forging a cheque tor Vl'l. He applied for leave oil account of ill-health, but before a repiv had beeu received from the lit ad tlu 1 had left the district. It it 1 that serious irregularities ha\ t n discovered in the bank's book. This day. i The Acting-Premier ha- ru'imihi ; circular from the Hon. < haml- r- : lain suggesting that nni!"rm action throughout the toii-un - w..uM greatly add to the inter*> f :!:■ 1 .».!• • c-1, brations but cotwders that climatic conditions alone r*-uitt- th- ii..j>inc- ; ti cable. He conlkleiitiv wave,-, u the local initiative to tittii.-.-! v 1. or.it. the occasion. The City Council has donated liOCAJflbe Jubilee Infections Diseases Hospital fund.-. Ai>ei-vU'F. Thi- day. A thousand tons «'ft irji> nir. damaged bv the tire --n -tt.tn.ir ifotbwell >iriu';nrsir.y the vessel has suffered ry -l- I The fetnah- v"rktr- ::i th-- I : trade have lonu-d a nnien -upj "rt the strikers. Th- r. .:re -is.-::- of strike tenuimuir.;*. f