AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PttSs AMOCistion.-Electric Teleeraph.-Ceprrlg-M. A SISTER'S SACRIFICE. Sydney, April 27. The baby sister of a girl named Moore, residing at Cootamundra, strayed on tin railway line when a train was approaching. The girl rushed in front of the train, threw the baby clear, but was herself run over and killed. A NEEDLESS SCARE. Adelaide, April 27. A medical examination has proved that tht supposed small pox on the steamer Polynesian is chicken pox, and consequently the vessel will nob be quarantined. TICK QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. Brisbane, April 27. The stock commissioners decline to accede to the pastoralists' request to relax the tick quarantine regulations so as to allow starring stock from clean districts in the # north . . to proceed to other districts. The tick has almost disappeared in the far west and is diminishing in the coastal districts. DISASTROUS DROUGHT. Brisbane, April 27. Many stock is perishing from drought in the central and northorn districts. TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. Brisbane, April 27. The third triennial convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was opened to-day. All the colonies except flew Zealand are represented. PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney. April 27. Parliament was opened to-day with tht usual ceremonies. The debate on the Ad* dress-in-Reply is proceeding. THE WEATHER. Sydney, April 27. The weather has taken up. The rain ii practically confined to the coast and mountains. Melbourne, April 27. Steady rain has set in, and there is a prospect of a break-up of the drought. NEW BICYCLE BY-LAW. Melbourne, April 27. The City Council has adopted a by-law requiring everyone using a bicycle in the city to hare a brake fitted on, and to have the owner's name and address on the machine. THE SEWER FATALITY. Sydney, April 27. The body of Sullivan, one of the men. drowned in the sewer, has been recovered floating in the harbour. COLLAPSE OF A STEEL TUNNEL Melbourne, April 27. An immense steel tunnel to connect the North and South Melbourne sewerage systems across the Yarra, 370 feet long, i and weighing 87 tons, collapsed while being I lowered. '' IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS. Sydney, April 27. The full Court has delivered two important judgments. A civil servant who wat dismissed prior to the passing; in 1895 of tin 1 Public Service Act, under which provision 1 was first made that the Government could dismiss Civil servants at pleasure, sued the ' Government for £6160, for alleged wrong. • ful dismissal. The Crown claimed that the 1895 Act was retrospective. The plaintiff demurred, and the Court, by a majority, i upheld the demurrer, and awarded judg. . ment for the plaintiff. ' In the second cose the Court held a bank responsible for the repayment of moneys in connection with a trust estate obtained by its late manager by fraudulent means. SIR CHARLES LILLEY. 3 . Sydney, April 27. Sir Charles Lilley has been admitted to the practice of the New South Wales Bar. | THE INTERCOLONIAL STEAMSHIP 1 COMPANY. } Sydney, April 27. Negotiations have been completed with < ~ . the Mcllwraith, McEachern Company t<u' takeover all interests, charters, contracts, . 8 of the Inter-Colonial Steamship Com--6 P aDy " ____________