AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2946, 3 March 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Br Tribobaph.) (Per B.a. Wakatipti at Wellington.) Stdnkt, Feb. 26. A strong ioutherly breeze, amount ing a'moßt to a gale, blew on Saturday. Ihert were several boat accidents m the harbor, and two, if not throe, lives were lost. Tho retail tobncconinti hare, ofriog to the now tariff, incroaieti tht price of tobacco and oigars to consumers. An ngit&tion against immigration is being organised under tho Protection League. Tho Amorioan ebe«p which were found inflected with scab, about two hundred m number, hnvp till been destroyed and all trace* eiadicated m tho diatriol where they had buen located. At tbo ainiual meeting of the Chamber of Djmmorcc yesterday, tlio Coinniittoe m tbeir report referred to tho iniportauco of maiot-ain-

)g the freedom of the commerce <.f the port. Borne rain has fullen m the country, but it >BB very light. Brisbane. Vfry heavy floods have occurred m fortbern Queensland. Over eleven inches o' am fell at Town«rille on Snttirday night ?he Endeivor bridge, near Cooktown, whb rished away. Great distress and lots of iroperty have been occasioned among the ettlars. The bodies of three drowned Chinese have benn found. A man namod Jalloway and a Kanaka are musing from the cbooner Exchange, which wa« sunk m Bundlin river when flmded. 'ihe Great Northern Railway was cjnaiderably damaged. Che drought, still euntinuis unbroken m socje )f the western districts. Floods also ccJurred at Port Darwin, m ihe Northern Territory, where a trooper was drowned. Melbourne. The funeral of Bir Charles 81adeo was largely attended. At the gravt the Bishop oE Ballarat gave an eloquent address. The d.ath is announced of Mr Thos. Bolan, late lospect^r General of Schools, who, it appeared had become reconciled to his wife, and they were living together. The cause of hiß death was ohlorodyoe taken medicinally. Mr Can-, Chief Inspector of Stock, has ax-presi-ed his opinion that fmther importation of pure-bred stock must do harm. If continued he recommends an extension of -.he period of quarantine.