AUSTRALIAN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7340, 3 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per a.s. Tarawera, at Auckland.)

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, November 27.

Parliament, after a shore financial session, prorogued to-day, au-i will not met-t again until April or M.iv. The Premier, «iuce ht» return from his tour, is greatly improved. Mr Dailey, Attorney-General, ha* be« n confined to his bod during the last few days. The American warship Iroquois leaves today for Hobart, where ahe stays about ton day a, aud then proceeds to Auckland. The jury disagreed at the inquest in regard to the suspicious death of Rachel llippon at the North Shore.

Another smallpox ca*e it reported, but all particulars are withheld. The patient in quarantine is progressing favourably. The discontinuance of vr-xxl paving in Sydney is recommended, and suggested. The crops in moat parts of the country are goad.

Brisbane, November 27.

In the Assembly, Mr Mclhvr.dth found fault with Commodore Kridtme’a proclamation in New Guinea. The real reason bad bet-u ignored : it w.*s nob as * stated, for the protection of the u ilives, but entirely for the protection of these cA mi* s.

Melbourne, November 27.

Sir W. Mitchell had a very largo funeral. On the proposal *>f the New Guinea vote, the Government will urge to keep on agitating for the annexation of the whole of New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

The Governor, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, visited Castlemaiue.

All the bootmakers belonging to the Union are now locked out.