AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5494, 13 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

A wrestling match took place in Brisbane, :' between Donald Diane, the : Scottish ' champion, and Stable, a local than, The/ match resulted in a "draw."' , '•', A Tamworth paper annbnnoes that the local ministers of religion have declined to , set aside one Sunday in each year at Hospital ' Sunday. Consequently it is proposed to 'do without their services;* and inaugurate:

Hospital Saturday. \ - '• j" •» An immense haul of salmon was niade oh ; Lake, Macqnarie lately. A great shoal ijpV': peated.arid about a ton of fish werfroaptttf eo,' ' ' Tfiousands were left dead on .thq beich; ' < , A Rreat sensation has beep caused in tyel« " bourne^ by ah account of some extraordinary/ proceedings in the Sanitorjum/whefre women were forcibly' bathed by m»I6 atteh'danta. It, appears th/at the attendants carried out W&f) ally ttie' instructions riven by wire, to t>ath« ' the inmates. The .ender of the : telegram" evidently forgot were 1 ' females ' among "the small-pox patfepta. ' ' ; ', ,r , 'Some Very extraordinary revelations ate to , be matte ehortiy in'connoction with ft notorir 1 ; pus' London criminal -who occupies a pbiition ' of trnatin Melbourne. I .'. '.'{••£'• ' '. \ ! ,, : ' • » • A Mr H. 'Hendeh, the, w^U-knoWriXohdon.; teron'aut, has Arrived in Sydney, and intend*" to make' a balloon 'asoeiit shortly. .Hf hi*;' made 1 about 200 ascents Ironi 1 England, Ire« , land, : GfermWy:r^ ;■ * ™ : ' " ; In the Hay PolW (Mttf 'j^W $'*$$* occurred., 'Mr'Lakeman^efuaed to won' the Bench With Mr frevena Wine Tgfodnd $frf V he (Mr Lakemnu) convicted Mr Trevefla on^ an occasion, when Mr Trevena was brought Dp on ; a'charg6 of having taken'wa'ter"WithouVniviigpaid rates'. , <J> *"' v '-•';. " a / : Mr Jriubert has been etagigfld in trying ;W" induce the vignerdtf ' to VictOriA'li6c6-oJ»eraie with the view of securing 'the skppiyitb the,. Indian markets. Judicjona (',( ', ift suitable nines have been forwarded to the . Bengal and other clubs 1 in 'Calcutta.' Similar' Samples will follow to'Bonibay 'arid Majdrai,. , i The State schools' in 1 North WilJ^ainßiiow'n r : have been ordered to be closed^ owfyig iothe 1 ' Prevalence of measles;* ■•^ n - •' \ .There are42o candidates for the Meiboutne University October term exatoiriatiipns, or considerably 'more th«ui' t 'there r hav6'bee"h it any previous examinatidn; ' J< *'■•'' " : °^ •■'' i MrW.^JMareh, rtebretftryio.'thb^Mel. bourne V.M.C.A., 1 it suffering ftottva seVere attack of oongestid^bfthe longs. Mr Marsh - lately viiited New Zealand. - ">' 1 ' ' 1( '- r -■ Messrs' ' Williamson, • Garner, and Musgrcve have : secured a lease of the Princess's Theatre, Melb6aMe,:for.4a years. It i» to be/ pulled down and rebuilt after Christmas. : The,, 1 , Melbourne/ Farmers' Society has handed £60 to the Union to sup. . borti'them in the fsirikei '' Xwd;lar#e'-w>»i manufacturers.^in - Ballfcrat' hVve. looked ouV^ ihe,ir.men. '"' '' '* " ,' , -t. » -t ! Mr William Affleck, a Viotorian,sqaatte < rt . who died in 4866/ left. by/hiS will *10001t iif year to His widow, 1 and 'insde other devices. Since then it has been discovered that there , wad an intestacy. Mr Joseph MoleSworthg has made an order to hand over the whole*, estate worth £32,000, to the widow. Mr Joseph Symes, - the: '^reethough lecturer, threatens to bring an action against the trustees of. the Oddfellows' Hnll, in < Brunswick, for having refused to allow him to lecture after he : htd engaged the hall and paid the rent for it. ' ,-.•■;• .7. - } 'i st> i The .first test of the. new underground drainage of Melbourne resulted, disastrously. A half-hour's storm filled the drains to over* flowing, and the eilj; and sand accumulated - t in the Elizabeth-street drain to sd^h an ex« tent that several hundred ' feet ofthe bad*way had to be broken up, and'ah eriOtnioui' deposit of rubbish carted away. Sonie' modi- 1 ! fication of the. drains will have to b 6! riiiide; '•'' WHliam_ Beach, according to L the Town „ and Country Journal, has returned from Melbourne and has gone to his home at Dapto, where he will do steady work until I he takes up his jiuarteMLon the river on January the lst..Thos. Clifford is doing good work, and under, the care of his trainer will, come on to the Parramatta River on Deoem- .. ber the Ist. Edward Han}an has returned to Sydney ; from ; Melbourne, and, .various j rumors have been current as to the locality of his . training , pnarters-nl|obart,, rGosford, and ;Gebrge's River, paying., i»U,i, been mentioned.' $ is, .und«**op4 ,th»tj.,^liaa Laycpck .will kept, him company .durjngi nisA training, and be. has now deoided to quarter himself on the.bapkjj of the Paramatta River, ; and go into aqtjve training in the oouraer of a ! few days, i <''<>;. .:.._> >■•> ■ • ■ i •"••>'