AUSTRALIAN

New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 26

AUSTRALIAN

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, October 4. Sailed—Hauroto, for Wellington. Miss Jervois is a passenger. Syuney, October 5. M. Pasteur has successfully demonstrated that there is a remedy for the disease of sheep known as anthrax. Melbourne, October 5. Arrived, yesterday—Tarawera, from the Rluff. Sydney, October 6. The Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the city tramways find that extensive frauds have been perpetrated, but profess themselves unable to ascertain to what extent the revenue has suffered. Six conductors have been dismissed in consequence of the report. The carpenters in the city have struck for increased pay. _ It is believed that the strike will involve 3000 men. Sydney, October 7.

Arrived —Wakatipu, this morning, from Wellington, after a stormy passage. On Monday night she experienced a terrific gale, which lasted the greater part of the voyage. The wheel-house and promenade deck were partially smashed. A heavy sea broke through the cabin deckhouse and flooded the saloon, and other minor damage was done. Sailed— Barque G. M. Tucker and schooner Syren, for Eaipara. Brisbane, October 6. The miners at Watertown colliery have struck for an increase of wages. The Assembly has agreed to the proposed duties on timber. They include Is 6d per 100 superficial feet on logs, and 3s per 100 feet on dressed scantlings. . Hobart, October 6. The Council has passed the property tax and rejected the absentee tax. At a meeting of stock owners, it was resolved that it is desirable, on condition that satisfactory arrangements are made by the New Zealand Government for enforcing quarantine against the Australian Colonies on the mainland, that the present prohibitory quarantine be considerably relaxed for cattle imported from New Zealand. Melbourne, October 7. Arrived —Schooner St. Hilda, from Grey mouth. Sydney, October 8.

Mr Druce, teller of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, has disappeared. His defalcations, so far as known at present, amount to L4OOO.

'the passengers of the steamer Wakatipu have presented Captain Wheeler rith a testimonial, in re- .. . b oition of the manner in which he handled the ship during the storm encountered on the trip from Wellington. . , Two yachts were capsized in tne harbour to-day, and one of the occupants, a youth named Osborne, was drowned, and the other four are missing. No further particulars of the accident have been received. Melbourne, October 8.

Through the capsizing of a yacht on Lake Victoria, a man named Jones, Mrs Wilson, and her son, were drowned.

Sydney, October 9.

The men reported missing after yesterday’s yachting . accidents have been rescued. A man named Ellerd has been sentenced to penal servitude for life, on a charge of brutally‘assaulting A police constable, who, it is believed, will die from the injuries sustained.