AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1601, 6 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per Alameda, at Auckland.)

(per jnited press association.) Sydney, Dec. 31.

Parliament does not meet again until the 27th January, and in the interval, the Ministerial elections will take place. ~. The holidays passed off successfully. The weather was very fine, and the traffic, was larger than ever known. Trade generally during "the jeax 1 has, been satisfactory, with a- good butkfok.V It is not probable that ; New South Wales will^beWefereserited by more than two players irr the team about to proceed ;to England. Jpnes,- Garrett, Evans, and Massey have declined. x ■ , . . , . The weather continues very hot. The water from the temporary works has not yet reached the Botany dams. * The collection of curios brought by the New Guinea Expedition has been extensively visited. There; was an extensive fall of coal in the Globe, Colliery, Newcastle, yesterday. Two men were injured. Brisbane, Dec. 31. The schooner Douro, Captain Sorensen, has been seized, bv order of Admiral Tryon, owing to the oaptain being accused of acts of piracy in the South Seas. The charges'rest mainly on a statement of a man nained Asche. E. G. Montague, who was a passenger on board the Duro} states that Captain Sorensen states that Asche's account is untrue, The Pouro will be released from quarantine ion January 18th. There is no further sioknesß ; all doing well.