REPORTED CASE OF SMALL-POX.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5023, 9 June 1884, Page 2

REPORTED CASE OF SMALL-POX.

HOW A MURDERER ESCAPED. WATCHING FOE DYNAMITARDS. Melbourne, June 4. Some little excitement has been caused by a reported case of small-pox. A man named Barker, lately arrived from Tasmania, was found to be suffering from a disease as to which the doctors are at variance, whether it is veritable small-pox or chicken-pox. Meanwhile the patient is isolated at the sanitorium, and his effects have been burned. Grea£ preparations are being made for an exhibition of rowing by Hanlan on the Albert Park Lake next Saturday. An Austrian named Suttorn, who was being conveyed from Adelaide to Sydney to answer a charge of murder, seized a moment when the constable's attention was diverted, and jumped overboard. Boats were lowered, but they weie unable to find the man. The inaugural meeting of the Melbourne University Union has been held. Sydney. Bishop Barry has excited the ire of total abstainers by expressing the opinion that the moderate use of stimulants is allowable The application for the release of the lunatic Cresswell from the Parramatta Asylum, on the ground that he is Arthur Orton has again been adjourned. Efforts are being made to accord a fitting reception to the Archbishop on his arrival.. Information having been received from the San Francisco police authorities that the dynamite party in America intend to send emissaries, steamers arriving from America will be subjected to strict examination, and the public buildings will be carefully guarded.