AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2293, 26 January 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Teleqbaph.) (Per s.a. Hero at Auckland.) Sydney, Jan. 19. Two children at Waterloo bare been seized with smallpox, bat not of a indignant form. The children were unvaccinated. A Gazette of the 17th formally proclaimed the Zealandia to be quarantined. A Liceasing Bench, consisting of six newlyappointed Stipendiary Magi* trates, fined Jas. Sharpe, landlord of the Colonnade Hotel, £5 for keeping open after 11 at night, m coatraYention of the licensing Act. Sharpe hai appealed to the Snpreme Court. tf .M.S. Miranda tailed for Hobart on the 16th ; the Emerald proceeds thither on the 19lh. The Mayor and Aldermen of Sydney will thortly wait on the Minister of Works to r< present that Elizabeth street and George street are now comp'etely blocked by tramway, and to ask for relief from the nuisance. Jhe ship Forfarthire arrived on the 16th with foar hundred immigrant*. The Auttralisn General Auuranoe Company hare drclared a dividend of 7i per cont for tbe half-year. The Sydney Exchange Company divide six shillings for the same period. Mr Hangerford waa elected for Northumberland by a. majority of 184 over Mr Griedale. MaXBODBBB. A railway train ran over a cow and was thrown off the line at Shepparlon. Tbe paseeDgera were not seriously injured. Uerr Boase, with a party of English gentlemen, members of tbe Alpine Club, hare arrived, and proofed shortly io New Zealand to explore tbe principal mountains of tbe colony. A report of the City Council od the theatres. state* tint the means of egret* at the Opera Home are insufficient, Bt. George's Hall being still more dangerous. Ihe Theatre Eoyal and Bijou are reported to be satisfactory. A Border Treaty between Victoria and South Australia has been agreed to. The priocipsl articles exempted are, agricultural implements, live stock, engines, jewellery, opium, spirit*, tobacco, wine and cbees*. Bxibbanx. Mr Archer, the recently appointed Coloni.l Treasurer, ha* been re-elected. Asblaidb. The Oddfe'lowt' Widow and Orphan Fund bas inoreaied by £20,000 during tbe last - fourteen year*. No fresh smallpox is »epo»ted. The patients ore progressing well though suffering from tbe beat. Tbe temperature m the sun on the lOlh vu 160 degree*, the highest ever registered, and m the shade at the Observatory 120. The heat up country is intense. Dr Gos*, Vaooinating Officer, ha* issued a cireuUr advising caution m Tacoination m hot month*, a* he consider* the result doubtful.

Pbbth. M. Jouhrrt ha» written o letter to Coven mont MibiiiiHing conjoin'ly with othi cupitit'iat*, a scheme for constructing a rsilw" from beverly to Albany, the Government ( j;r>nt ten million acre* m fee simple. '11 cost of tlio line is estimated at a million an a quarter. Tho Engineer newspaper favors th scheme, but. the West Australian opposes it.