AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
: • r— . ■ ... [Per s.s. Kotbmaharia at [the Bluff.] (PEB UNITED PRESS j Melbourne, DecembeVll; The Imperial officers who arrived from England. ;foj: the purpose of reorganising the defence-force of the colony have.-takea pver;> charge, and t are actively engage^inspecfcing 1 all the corps antj armaments of the-colony. fn order to .prevent an increase !of the! rabbit pest, .the .Government are discouraging the erection of brush (fences, and m the future. up valuation will be allowed as improvements on bru,sh fences m. rabbit-infected districts. The new hotel just completed m near Parliament House, contains 149 bedrooms. The cost, , of the 1 building is £ 150,000. It is named the Grand Hotel. — - Mr Gil!ies, ; the Minister <oi Railways had a narrow eiscape^ "from ft sepiotis accident ,on JFridftv,^. While assisting, to put'some'ndrsbsy.into a buggy, ,6ne of tbe' anfniais made a piling^, and the pole struck. Mr Gillies m the face, but, ioi'tunately did not injure him seriously.^ . . t . . . . ;• . ,!.,., 7 Ernest MorrisoiJ,' the New Guinea cortespondenl of the Age, has avrivecl his father's ,hou,se ; at Geeloog, iny%n ex^emely' weak obndition, i ■ ' ' '"' ' HOBAf.T. The captain of the steamer Tasman, which was lately wrecked, has been, derated by^ 'the * tepmpaiiy, and ' the mape has. btfe'n disrfisised the Service. SrouttJbje BroAffl, jqttrhalist, hasj beeij.' se'ntjenced to' fou^ naonths' im-* pri^oniuent for ' passiifg valueless cheques. James Cooman, who was arrested
for accidentally Shootiogc-« blirma'id/? has been comrpitte^ for^nianslanghtet/j at the criminal'sessions \toi Negligence m handling firearm* At the Central Eplice Court, t^e proprietor of Bass' Hotel waseiimrnoned ! for allowing gaming on his licensed premises, a club having rented a room to i carry on sweeps. The magistrates expressed opinions that sweeps should be legalised, but they fined the defeudaut in o a .nominal aum* -— - - ■-»" •~^' An Adelaide telegram has been vcceived from Port Darwin announcing the i discovery-of- Stuarfe's-route; tnarked ' on trees, on the north-west coast. The; iutials were cut lear and dis tinct. j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 18, 19 December 1883, Page 2
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