AUSTRALIANS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 25 February 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIANS.

Per Electric Telegraph—CopyrightUnited Press Association. Sydney, Feb 23. The Government were defeated last night, the State House Repeal Bill being carried by 40 to 30. The action of the Premier in persevering with his proposal for the erection of a State house is strongly condemned by all shades of political and public opinion. Fob 24.

Horan has found it impossible to accompany the next Australian team to England. Moses will probably take his place. Trott wiH also be a member of the team. The composition of the team is generallv ridiculed, and is considered very weak. Mr W. H. Paling, of the firm of \Y. H. Paling and Co, importers of pianos and music in Sydney, has given an estate of 450 acres, with plant and stock, and £IO,OOO in cash, for the purpose of a convalescent hospital, as a memorial of the centenary of the Colony. The institution is to be called the Oarrinjrton Hospital, after Lord Carrington, Governor. The recently discovqrod comet was distinctly visible in many parts of Now South Wales this morning.

Brtsb\.nv, Feb 9# A new sheep disease peared in some parts of tin! Colony. It is of a mangy character, and rather virulent. it is tuoiuriit the grass of the districts in which the disease h- s made its -ppoaranco miv be iho cause of tile d..>order. Adelaide, Feb. 23. A thousand Chinese have been landed in the C deny sumo the Ist of December last. It isi reported that the instigators of tau Ciiiueso movement towards xne ruby field will dispute "'the thousan 1 mile limit imposed upon Chiueso, and will advise the Chinese to refuse to pay the poll-tax of £lO pur head now exacted from them.', .1 Melbourne, Feb 23. A telegram lias been •’rccMved from the Observatory x at tlu«£iel University announcing very of a comet on the 18 th inst. The comet has since been observed in this Colony.