A AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7863, 19 May 1886, Page 6

A AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Pee. Pbebs Association.] (Per s.s. Tarawera, via Auckland.) NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, May 13. The Budget debate makes very slow progress, a great portion of the time in the Assembly being taken up in questions and arguments, when a variety of topics are discussed. The weather continues dry and fine. The water in the Botany dams is getting low, and the Engineer is again cautioning against large consumption. An outbreak of tyyhoid fever occurred at Leichardt, owing to defective drainage and polluted milk. There were thirty-eight cases and five deaths. There has been a good deal of discussion in reference to the centennial celebration, but as yet nothing has been done, and no scheme devised, VICTORIA, A team of riflemen will leave for England. Colonel Sleep has been nominated captain of the team. Mr Deakin has declined to amend the Shops and Factories Act so as to ensure uniformity in closing. The Harbour Trust hopes in three or four weeks’ time to let water into the Fishermen’s Bend cutting from the Yarra. In reply to a deputation favouring the adoption of centralisation, the Premier promised to carry out the idea so far as it would possibly conduce to the public convenience. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. A large number of men have left for the Kimberley goldfields. The Pastoral Board reports that the country is looking well in some parts, but in others is suffering much from drought, and that stock are dying. The country is swarming with rats.