AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 113, 14 May 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LReuteb's Special to Stab.] SYDNEY, Yesterday.

A large fire partly destroyed the premises of Curran, grocer, George street, and totally destroyed Harris' produce store, haymarket. Insurances: — Curran's, £12,000, including ££00 in, the New Zealand Insurance ; Harris, £200 in the National Company, New Zealand.. .

MELBOURNE., Jesterday.

-The Victorian Post Office Department is propounding a scheme for an Intercolonial Postal Union.

In the Legislative Council theconsiderntion of the Reform Bill in Committee was oonoluded. Several important amendments were carried, and tbe Bill was -read a third time and ordered to be returned to the Assembly. It is generally believed that there are hopes of a compromise being effected and a settlement of the

,&fficultyj)&twe.en .the two Houses being nrrivedat; - An attempt' to stiok up the Bank of 1 'Victoria was -made recently at' Seymour. Mr. Hayes, who sleeps on the premises, beard a noise in the direction of the front windows of the bank. He immediately - a'rose,-pbtained a revolver, and proceeded to the place. , Finding the window partly ...open, and hearing the sound of footsteps, :he fired his revolver. He searched,, and discovered that some papers, which were of no importance, had been taken. The jpolice are engaged in investigating the .'matter. 'No trace of the robbers has yet ' teen found. >