AUSTRALIAN

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2054, 8 January 1887, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

THE MELBOURNE < ENTKNNIALTI CTO Itl AN WHEAT YIELD. THE BSNK THIEVES, EXECUTION A'" DARLING-HURST GAOL AN UNDIGNIFIED MINISTERIAL QUAKRELL, [Reu'er’s Telegrams.] M elkoukne, Tli ursdav. No fresh eases of small pox are reported at, the quarantine station, wlier' 'lie patients are progressing satisfactorily. The Cabinet are considering the question of Vic orian representation At the Imperial Conference, but are unable to nominate a representative until information has been received as to the d He when the Conference will be held. Mr (Edits has telegraphed to the Agent-General the following particulars in connection with the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition: —A commissi >n ha- been appointed with Judge Higginbotham as .President, Sir James MBain, Sir William Clark, Mr Peter Lalor and Mr Sar* good as Vice Presidents ; the other members are JamesM'uuro, Bosisto Murray Smith, the Mayors of Melbourne. Ballarat and Sandhurst,' he President of tlm Chamber of Manufacturers : Mr Trenwith the President ot the Trades’ Hall Council ; A John Blyth, Byron Moore and Vale The Australasian estimates the ig| yield of wheat this season in Victoria at 12,07J,'.‘“0 bushels, being an average of 11*70 bushels per 57S acre, The surplus is estima'ed at §lB 133,000 bushels. The Leader’s es"Jj timates are as follows ; Yield 12,152,000 bushels; average per fill aerc 12*10; surplus 153,000 bushels. |S Friday. It has been ascertained that the men John and Hubert Lewis, who /-p stuck up the National Bank, Albert SPark, and were stated to be new arrivals are Goth from Sydney, where they are well connected. Received Jan, 8, at 1 a m. Another smallpox case is reported at the Quarantine Stntkn. Doctor |ff§§: Porter, the medical ollicer, has telei I graphed that there is little doubt that the patients nowin Quarantine were inteoted during the removal of the corpse of the first vict m, at Adelaide, which was wrapped in loose canvas, and r -moved in the presence ii the 5 ronssen s passengers. Several of (in* patient< at Sorrento have admitted they dodge : the Medial -inspect >r when he visited the vessel at. Ade'aide. Several patients at the Quarantine Station a:*.. in a cru'ical state, one of the cases being considered hopeless. A very serious hush lire * ccurn d at Nuuiurkah, resulting in great dests action of property. A del a i m-:, Friday. Two fresh cases of smallpox are reported, one of which is regarded as hopeless. The Teetulpa diggings contiuu

to give fur l-eml's, the workings in most cases living good returns. Many di putes have occurred with regard to claims. i Svdnkv, Friday. The Mount Rennie conv cts were executed at Dirlieghiust Gao' at nine this morning. About 150 j persons were sent. Read handed in I a written s'atement lieclaring the * innocence of himseif and those re ; p'ievr d, except Donnellan. There v.-is no demonstration ins.de <r outsid 1 of 'he Gaol, Of the four men hanged, Boyce died the hard f, ! the struggles of the others being ( brief. Coivespon lence has been pnbl | shod between Mr I) bbs an t Sir : Patrick Jennings, The f finer bed ns iy a contemptuous reference to the extent a Premier can descend whose administrative tactics and diplomacy for many wcJcs have been confined <o one single ohj-c‘ hunting a colleague out of tie Cabinet. lie adds he is not disposed to have a concoct d resignation foiccel upon him, and wil choose his own time for resigning. SirP Jennings in reply, informs Mr Bibbs he cannot act where end how he pleases, or remain a member of a Cabinet simply at his own discretion. r l lie dispute will probably lead to the downfal 1 of illwhole Government.