AUSTRALIAN SUMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMARY.

(Per s.s. Te Anau at the Bluff.) ; (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, August 4. The cable between Victoria and Tasmania is broken half way across. It will be some time before it is repaired. Th> Mayor gives v grand ball at the Town Hall to^nigltt; twelve hundred are invited. The case of the girl Rosanna Plumraer, who recently murdered her infant, h«i» been considered by the Executive, and sentence of death commuted, as it was shown that she was not m her right senses at the time of the'occurrence. A.. -deputation of the unemployed waited "on the Government, request-' iog to be provided with work. : Sydney, August 4. Tho Duke.of Manchester sailed on Sunday by Menrauir for Thursday Island. '■ ■'■ .;■:;/• A difficulty has arisen between the Customs. and the Messageries Maritimes Company with regard to the right of t}ie former to search the company's steamers : on arriving and checking attempts at : struggling.*' Th c' agent of the company and the French Consul ~ consider • the "company's steamers exeiript from search, but the Attorney-General is of a different opinion.' ; A destructive, fire broke out on Sunday, on the barque Emil Julius, lying at Dibb's wharf. The vessel had to be^cu tiled. "• A disturbance occurred iv. the Domain,' when Smith (of Tich borne notoriety),- and 1 Captain Jackson Barry liad a wordy conflict. They j >yere suriounded by 3000. to 4000; persons, and Bitrry Was rushed. ';' ■■■ Adelaide, August 4. A batch of Egyptians from Port, Said have landed by' the steamer Oce.m. They are unable to speak English, and are quite destitute. Good water has been "Struck by the boring, at Hergotfc ; the Springs railway is being pushed on there. A number of gentlemen are .endeavouring to float a romnariy with a capital of £100,000, for the purpose" of carrying on the J üblilee Exhibition scheme which was abandoned by the Government. Smallpox has appeared at Border Town. Several valuable discoveries of minerals, chiefly silver ore, have been made m the vicinity of Beltana. i A deputation representing municipalities waited upon tlie Government to protest against the proposed withdrawal of Government subsidies, but the Ministers held out no hopes of reconsideration. Brisbane, August 4. The Colonial Treasurer, replying to a deputation,: promises to consider the questiqn of abolishing; the duty on imported wheat. : Three supposed New Caledonian escapees arrived at Cooktown after suffering great privations. They will be brought up at the police court.