AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 142, 23 May 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

iai DRaINAGB OF j . -THE'TniTBItOOXiONIAL"-: ; RAILWAY^ * AMERICAN '• IMMI&RANTS^fOR ,^i ii AUSTRALIA.. ;;I (Per Te AnauV at Bluff.) (^JTED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) ;J> Melbourne, May" 15? ; : The question of opening the Art Gallery on Sundays hag: been,^. great bone of. ; contention lately, petioos, for and against being numerously signed—psrhaps those m, favor- of the movement the. most largely. The attendance both Sundays since: the.; opening has. been v«r y large, and the . frequenters were most orderly;. • ;■:' \ -V ; ;;r - / , t j Another shoclring burning fatality is reported from Warragal, -Gjppsland, by which Mm Condor and two infant chillost their •lives through- the burning of a weatherboard cottage. t . • :The. City;, . Council intend to float; a loan, of £200,000 to .carry put works; including the drainage of Elizabethstreet. :'.\-: •■■".'■•■ „ .■;.- ■.•: i .;BYDNET,/May'ls. . A fatal boat accident, has occurred on Lake Macqaarrie.:., Three men went out fishing, and the boat baa been found bottom lip, and; (the,- bodies of two men were recovered. The third has not yet bean found. It has been dacidid^thitrthe banquet to celebrate; the junctiqar of the New South Wales and ..Victorian Railway systems be held on the,l4t/) Jane, it convenient to both ..Governments, it is to be heldjin the en^ine^shed, Albury, which is to. seat; 9 00 guests^, half from each colony, r? ?. •■.-'. .-. a\-. ' , : :■. -.., \ . .■■■■■:■ . . ; - Brisbane, May 15. ; ; Mr Perkins, Minister for. ( .Lands, has received a letter from Connecticut asking information as to. the prospects A.meri- : can immigrants would; have m Queens* liand, stating that a large number of merchant and.farmers would like to emigrate to : Queensland. ,. , Mr Archibald Forbes was entertained :at it-he Johnsonian ,_. Club ,on Saturday evening. , ■■.;,<._ uAi ,-: ;^>: „ , Adelaide, May 15. At the. Korth v Adelaide Congregational Church,, the Rev. O. Copeland preached against gambling m connection withraces;; Erecoatended that racing .fostered gambling, and could not exist without it. Those legislators who upheld sporb encouraged a great national sin, aud be depredated the support given by the Governor, Sir T. Elder, and .other leading; colonists. At the same time hb admitted that such men as Sir T. Elier and Sir Hercules Robinson never betted. . ';' ; / (Per s.s.'Zealandia at Auckland.) ; SybNEY, May 12. The Postal Conference having con- , eluded,, the delegates i left on the 15th. 'fhVresulfcs arrived at are considered satisfactory. . The Conference agreed that all the colonies should apply for admission tWtfoafPosfcal -Union.! That the stipulations suggested by the PostmasterGeneral, of England be insisted on; that each of the* colonies be afforded a separate: voice ia affairs of^the- Union, also 1 providing for the adjustment of loss incurred by each colony by adopting, the Postal Union.- Amongst other things, it was agreed to improve ; the packet and parcel -postal rates. It is desirable that fifteen letters be allowed as the maxim,um[ length of? each word between the Australasian colonies' and / iJew Zealand, the establish nierits of postal notes, and the redaction of 25 per cent on Press telegrams. from England. The question .of federal , quarantine was also considered , and the .establishment of stations at Albany and Thursday. lsland. Queensland withheld . from, the con{<;rence r and declined to agree with the terms of the Postal itJnion/ and "New Zealand also declined. The whole question is to be put bbfore New Zealand, and the Government has been wired to re-obtain their acquiesence. :> lh tbe event of the Imperial Government being unable to remove any difficulties that might arise m carry ing out adual system, the whole of the resolutions will be of no effect. A belief exists m certain circles here that the 'position of New South Wales will not be improved, and it is stated that the results ot the Conference will probably not be ratified by Parliament; :ii C f : -f ■'■'■■' .The weather has^ been very wet. Five incheb of rain' fell ia Sydney last week, and* there hasi Keen a .heavy isea along the coast. The only casualties have been two small coasters wrecked. Mr Redmond continues his lecturing tour m the. colony, and at Goulbura wm

to Bpeak m a manjtiee. His language has generally t* m par ate. C: The Calcutta b xhibition Commission is appointed. f:>, Melbourne. , A woman's meeting protested against opening tbe Museums on Sundays. Henry Palmer one ot tbe^B.onsman Tian\t J 'robbers recently arrested, had intended leaving for San Francisco. The Orient took 2600 carcases, be« lieved to be the best shipped. ' ■ Bishop Bel wj nis urging {the claims of the. South Sea Mission to public ropp6ftj-. c *- '\ " \ ; ' i .. 0.-,' ;^ x Vt :