AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5669, 16 January 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[By Eieotric Telegraph -Copyright _p er Press Association—Red. Jan 16" 1 am] SYDNEY, Jan. 15. ' Lebremer, late of H.M.S, Diamond Biiccoeds Lieut. T. K. Pelly as commander of H.M.S. Lizard, at present in New Zealand waters. The Board of Health have determined if possible to prevent the spread of influenza to this colony, and have ordered a strict inspection to be made by the health officer of all vessels arriving here from influenza infected ports. In reply to enquiries from the local Board of Health the Melbourne and Adelaide Boards state they do not consider the disease could be prevented from spreading by merely fumigating the mails and quarantining vessels from infected ports.' * . ■ Heavy rain has fallen throughout the colony, and the harvest in the northern district is suffering considerably. Sailed : Magellan Cloud for Auckland and Vision for Kaipara. BRISBANE, Jan. 15, Glastonbury Creek was flooded by tile heavy rain and came down in a solid wall of water 20ft high. Three houses wore washed away and a woman named Coombes drowned, along with three of her children. _ . Sailed : Andes for Napier. MELBOURNE, Jan. 15. Arrived : Notero from Hokianga. Sailed : Men tone for Whangaroa. Messrs l?layford and Cockburn represent South Australia at the Federation Conference next month. . Mr Gillies has completed the necessary arrangements for the opening of the b ederal Council on the 4th proximo. NEWCASTLE, Jan, 15. bailed : Defiance for Auckland..