LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE,
A GUN ACCIDENT,
POUND DEAD,
Symjey, May 26. Yesterday the chiH of .On Chong, one of the principal Chinese merchants of that city, whs attacked with an illness believed to be chicken pox. The disease was hot sufficiently dedeveloped to say for certain what it was. Policeman are stationed in front and back and no one allowed to go or leave the building. A telegram from Wileannia states that rations at Mount Brown are quite exhausted. Diggers are trying te form a co-operative society. They deal entirely with Adelaide and obtain their goods via Port Augusta or Barrier. At Temora alluvial and reeling are alike prosperous.
Lay cook and Rush have made a deposit at at Grafton foi the ensuing nice on the Parramatta river.
Edward lieardouH, collector at tranthorn, while holding a Chinese gun on Tuesday, which a man named Paskins toucked it with a match, it suddenly exploded, nearly severing Reardons's thumb. His face was burnt, the left eye being severely injured.
Queensland,
John Davidson, alias Dicksoo, a passenger from India by the steamer Boraa, was found dead in bed at the palace Boyal Hotel, Ipswich, on Tuesday. The evidence showed that prussic acid was found on his stomach. A gun was found fixed so as to go off on opening the door of the bedroom.
Victoria,
In the Legislative Council yesterday, the second reading of ths Land Tax Amendment Bill was moved. It was strongly opposed, and a petition read signed by eighteen hundred small and large landowners against it. The debate was adjourned till Tuesday.
The com ;i .i ii been well observed from the OVorvivtoi-v, iJQO'J measurements of the position >j-.4 o jj.iiiunUi
South: Australia.
The Wesleyan Conference resolved to open subscription lists in each colony on behalf of the families of the ministers lost in the Tararua. The next g'-i-ral conference will beheld at Christchurcli in Xo. f j:i'» r. 1084. A constitution for Friendly Islands District was agreed upon.
The Bev. Beid is the New Zealand representative from the General Conference to the Methodist Congress to be held at London in September,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 129, 4 June 1881, Page 2
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