AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4669, 24 February 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, This day

Mr H. H. Hayter, the Government Statist, haa estimate! the population of Victoria at the end of the year at 1,174,000, and that of New South Wales at 1,223,000.

Mr Allison Smith has issued a writ for libel against the Age. The amount of damages is not stated.

A somewhat sensational divorce suit was dismissed yestarday owing to collusion. The husband, who was the petitioner, gave the co-respondent a receipt for £1500 as compensation for the los 3of his wife, home, and two children. Adelaide, This day. Sailed: Dunoraig, for New Zealand. A Joint Commission of the Methodist body by 19 votes to 4 carried a motion favoring an early organic union of the Methodic Churches in the colony.

Mr John Kidd, Postmaster-General, who represents New South Wales at the Postal Conference, was a passenger by the Hauroto which left yesterday for Wellington direct.

The Stookton miners have decided to accept the hewing rate of 3s 2d on leases of the selling price of 8s per ton, provided all the men employed in the mine before the strike are reinstated. Melbotjbne, This day. Mr SueU, the Adelaide 'cyclist, rode from Adelaide to Melbourne in 3 days shrs 42mins, thus lowering the record by 18hrs IB^mins.

Arrangements lor lighting the oity properly with electricity have been completed, and it is expected that the new system will bo brought into operation early nest month.

The Chairman of the Tariff Board will probably recommend Parliament to amend the tariff in the direction of simplification and relief where jt is considered the duties press unduly . Laukcbston, This day. Arrived: Zeno, from Hokianga. Newcastle, This day.

Sailed : Adelaide, for the Thames; Kate Tatbam, for Napier; and Elizabeth Graham, for Lyttelton. Arrived : Jasper and Othello, from Lyttelton.