AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1702, 7 May 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per b.s. Wairarapa at Auckland.)

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION) Brisbane, Friday. Mr Ballard, chief engineer of the railway m the Centra] district, has resigned owing to being mixed up with railway, contractors. It has been resolved to wind ap the Central Quoenslaod Meat Company »t Rockharnpton. The Hon John Douglas has entered into a contract for a monthly service from Thursday Island to New Guinea. Adelaide, Monday. The Board appointed to inquire into the recent railway accident find that it was entirely caused by the negligence of the pointsman, Forrest, and that the signalman was grossly negligent. ■,_..■ Ernest Minchin, chief teller of the National Bank, hr>B been arrested for the embezzlement of £1000. The President of the Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting, spoke very hopefully of the prospects of the colony, and deprecated the absurd representations which had gone abroad; Sydney, Thursday. / The Randwick Race Meetiar so far has been decidedly successful m respect of the weather, the attendance, and the racing. The Gold Cup Race was * splendid one. A grand held started, Nelson being made favorite up to the last moment on the strength of his running m the Autumn Stakes. He failed, however, to justify his position, as he ran very forward for a mile and a half, and then suddenly dropped away, add finally finished nitith. Cerise and Blue i?u a splendid race, and came with » grand rush at the finish, winning it m the fastest time yet recorded for; the race. Mr Oxenham, the owner, is said to have won £11,000 or £12,000 by her victory. The unemployed are dissatisfied with the wages paid at the relief works, and are again agitating. A serious collision occurred on the Paramatta River yesterday, the steamer Paramatta being cut down to the water's edge, but the passengers and crew were rescued. • ■ • *■ Holt has been committed on a further charge of falsifying certain accounts with the Bank of New Zealand. Melbourne, Friday." James Lander, one of the imprisoned miners, was rescued en Wednesday night, after being confined iv the DtikVt Consols mine for 14 hours. He was unhurt.