AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1973, 1 October 1886, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

(Per s.s. Tarawera at Auckland.) Sydney. Alfred Reynolds, th» Newtown murderer, is to be executed on the Bih October. The unemployed arc again agitating, and the Colouial Secretary libb warned Hi m that the Government cannot give r muneratire work. William Lipman, who was shot by Benjamin Joseph iD Brisbane street, ha* died, and David Levy is not expected to iccover. Brisbane. A great fight took place between several hundreds of Kanakas on the plantations near Bundaberg on Suuday. Several were shot, but not fatally. Spears were alio freely used, Melbourne. A deputation Horn the Victorian shopkeepers waited on the Governmentrecently cud presented a petition containing 300 ) signatures for the repeal of the compulsory clause in the Factories and Shops Act. A fisherman named Gloreo and two mates arrived at Gabolsland, having been blown away from Worgan Inlet, They had been out five days when they made the lighthouse, and during that time had •xisted on oysters, They wire much exhausted. In the Assembly the proposal that newpaper reports of meetings open to the Press should be privileged.