AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 6632, 3 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright.

TER PRESS ASSOCIATION. EUcoived M»y 2, fit 1.10 p m. Sydney, M»t 2. The Gorerntnont hatj called fr«sh tenders for tho conHtruotion of fifty locomotives in th« colony. Tha Executive of the Rabbit Commin«'oa ban comraumostod with tho Netr Zealand Governrn«Qt requ^sbins? tbat a report of tho alleged epidemic of fowl cholera in Canterbury be forwarded to them, and also to send tt fimall qunatity of the blood of tho diseased fowU ia vacuum tu*i«n.

Adelaide, May 2. Dr Reilly ba« benn connect at9<l to the Sco of Port Augnsta. The caremouy wts conduct d by Cirdinal Mor*n. Fathers Ciistaguoo. and KLulr, of New Zealand, wore also pn'so'n*.

Newcastle, May 2, Sailed—E-lith Mary, f r Waugauui; for Auckland.

Worcester, Melbourne, May 2, Sidled—To Aami, for Hcbart r>nd Bl^ff. Wb« tnkes 100 Cbineso. At an inflututißl public tnwtinjj it vrai rcaolvtd to auk the GoYeinraant to introduce » bill imposing a Chinese poll-tax of L2OO ftnd a residential tax of L2O. The meeting strougly protested against reltgatinn to tho I<npprial Government tins right to legislat* on the Chines© question, which wm a matter purely for the colonie3 to conaider.

TownsVlLle, May 2. Arrived-— Marion, from Wauganui; IRuoeWed May 2, «t 9 15 p.m.

Stdnkt, M»y 2. SaiUd— H.M S. Opal, for * cruiso in the South Seat. KcoelTcd Mfiy 2, at 11 10 p.m.

Stdney, lUj 2. The lentenes of d«nth pis»i*d on Gru< tuvlus Dinlo, f»r attcmp'ad aiorder p.t Dubbo, ha» buea oomtnutod to imurituntuent for life,

Brisbane, May 2. A tnaa named Porior b*« !•*»* nrrstted here on a ohirfl* of att«raptiag to potion his wife at Non««8tla.

Melbourne, M*y 2 The Ohlncin paeuanuere by tho Afgh»u aaeerted that thtic food w«a being tampered frith, »nd ruthed the rcceel oouk to-day, but the tnarabers of tho W3ter police on board »ho«tr*iaer roicu«*d lim alter n itruggU. Somfl of >h« Citluoss are reported to haro ex:)r*s?ad » d«tcr-' tuiuatfoo to maMny rubber tbun aubmit to bo Ukon back to Chine. A force of urmed p >lic3 and Ous'omn offic^a h*ve been «ont on board tho Bteauioi' to ociifilt in tho prp«erv!Vion of ort'er.