AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4724, 19 July 1890, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BT EIECTKIC TELEGRAPH—COPTRIOHT.) (rot orrrtD press assocutios.) Received Jviy 19, ct 1.20 a m. Adelaide, July 18 Tba Literary Sodeey la putting forward proposals for an International debating toaroameot in Melbourne next year. Btethed July 19, ct noonStdset, Joly 19. Arrived - PendlebiU, fr»m Napier; Northern Chief and Presto, from H>kiaaga. Archbishop Moran is rablug a fund tor praeiog a Dalley memorial In the window In St. Mary's Cathedral. Oo Thursday half a million aces of land were taken op oo conditional purchase. Tbe barque Zodiac haa broken up and her cargo of timber Is scattered along tha beach. Metbocrse, July 19. Arrived—Ta An»o, from Bluff. Sailed—Mooowai, for Broff. Foley** extensive furniture warehouse, fa Bourka-street, haa been destroyed by lire. The balldlog was Insured for L3OOO and the atock for L6OOO. Tho New Zealand Company'* offisa baa a Hoe of LSOO oo tbe buildfns, and the N»'lonal and New Zealand Companies LIOOO on tbe atock. RtasnudJuly 19, at 0 15 p.m. Mexboctcse, July 19. Captain Jorgensoo, in hla patent lifeboat, the StoTn King, will be welcomed by the pilots on hla arrival at Port Phillip Heads. In giving avfdence before tho Charities Commlaaiooer, three doctors stated that the Melbourne Hospital waa a hot-bed of disease sod asserted that tire house surgeons bad died from an attack of phthisis contracted In consequence of the Insanitary atate o( the hospital. Brisbane, Joly 19. Mr Patrick Real, barrister, and aolicttor, haa been sworn In as a judge of the Supreme Court, vice Mr Justice Meln, deceased. ADELAIDE, July 19. The vfgnerona and fruit growers are demanding the extermination of sparrows. Perth, Joly 19. Owing to the bursting of a paraffin 1 »mp, the steamer Eldaratle ought fire during her voyage from Albany to Freemaotle. The saloon was gutted, and a lady passenger was severely burnt, before tbe flames were mastered.