AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6146, 19 August 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

' [Pfiß Press Association. ( By Electric Telegraph— Copy righ t. ) SYDNEY, Aug. 18. Arrived : Monowai from 'Frisco, via 1 Auckland. Sailed : Jubilee for Wellington. Stansbury and Kemp intimato thafc fchey aro willing to row Hanlan and O'Connor, in a double sculling race for L2GOO aside, aud will also row each of them a single , sculling race for LSOO aside. They will allow LOGO for expenses if rowed on the Parramafcta river. MELBOURNE, Aug. 18. The jumpers brought from Napier by Mr Doughlas, were submitted to auction, and realised the following prices : — The Peer 45 guineas, Mr Macklin ; Montrose 11, 525 guineas, Mr Macklin ; Jupiter 110 guineas, Mr Glasscock ; Chemist 170 guineas, Mr Glasscock ; Kapo 100 guineas, Mr Clough. Aug. 19. A clover fraud was effected yesterday on the Bunk of Australasia by a lady-like woman who presented a chequo for L 137, which apparently had been duly passed by the ledger keeper. Ifc was accordingly cashed, but later on she attempted fco pass another similarly marked for lA3OO, when suspicion was aroused, and she whs arrested. Sho alleges a man asked her to cash the cheques, and th© police are inclined to believe her story. Tho Federation Bill is being considered in Committee. An amendment) was carried limiting the Governor - General's salary to LIO,OOO. The Commissioner of Customs has requested tho Marine Board to institute a charge of misconduct against Capt. Logan, of the Manapouri. HOBART, Aug. 18. The R.M.S. lonic from London via the Capo, arrived at ono o'clock this afternoon, and sails again at 11 p.m. for New Zealand. She has 48 passengers for Australia, and 60 for New Zealand. ADELAIDE, Aug. 19. Tho Federation Bill has passed the i Assembly and has been committed. ! LAUNCESTON, Aug. 19. | Tne City of Melbourne Bank has do- . clined to take over the Government busi- . ness of tho Van Dieman's Land Bank, , and negotiations with other banks are , proceeding. I 1 ' " -J '• i One of tho latest proposed application ' of oleefcricity is a policeman's club that ] contains a galvanic battery. When the ] rowdy seizes fche club, thinkiug to wrest t ifc from the policeman, the rowdy receives ( an electric shock, which astonishes and i paralyses him, rendering his capture easy, t Our dusky brethron are nofc behind- t hand in resorting to ways thafc are dark, r as the following incident will show : — c Some three years ago a v Maori sport" v who owned a horse thab had won soveral races in Hawke's Bay, decided on giving f ifc a spell, sent its to a friend of his (also a t Maori) to take chargo of. A short time t afterwards the owner received word of his n horse's death, and after lamenting over its v decease, finally forgot all about ifc until his c attention was drawn to a similar r.atne of a a horse entered afc one of tho recent Hutfc p meetings. It did not take him long to b journey to Wellington to interview the o horse whioh he had boen led to believe tl was dead. He immediately took posses- b sion of the animal, while the nominal o owner threatened all sorts of things, but it nothing more has been heard of, bhe matter, b