AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, 30 March 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PER THE ' ALHAMBRA.'] * , [press agency.] The Age has accused the Chairman of r Committees of being drunk and incapable in i the House, and has repeated the charge. , Currency has been given to the most dist graceful scandal, in which the names of wellb nigh the highest personages in the colony l are freely mentioned. There are all sorts of i disreputable scandals about, and persons are' so pointedly alluded to that they might as well be photographed. i \Talter Sheridan, the well-known tenor ; has been accused of smuggling cigars. j Only a third of the whole shipment o£ *■' salmon ova remains sound. : Scarlet fever is prevalent, and many deaths > continue. t Mdlle. lima De Murska has concluded heri performances here, and. will probably leave > for New Zealand next week. i The Assembly has passed a bill to estab- ; lish the postal card system, and two of the j new taxation bills. A fearful drought is reported in Queens- ■ land, in Warrego district. The thermomes ter stood at 112 for three weeks. All the rivers are fast drying up. Cattle are dying . in all directions in Bourke. No heavy rain . has fallen for two years.. The Suez mail will be a week late this ; month.