AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 191, 19 July 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

[per s.s. trraweba at the bluff. J (By Telegraph.) [united press association.] Melbourne, July 10. The Redmond Brothers have been t'e cause of a split between Father M' K^nna and the Roman Catholice of Fitzroy. Redmond applied for the use of the school for a meeting, which M'Kenna refused, whereupon the ladies of the congregation, who were making eflFnts for a bazaar m aid -of the church handed m their subscription lists and refused to assist m the matter. The r^ven-nd gentleman was ? till further sur prised to find that a large number of Catholics residents refused to subscribe to ihe cbuach extension, the result being that he ha* reconsidered the matter, and agrees to preside over the meeting shortly to be be!d. Adelaide, July 10. Several waterspouts have been visible *t Port Adelaide, but no damage was drne. Sydney, July 10. A. man named William Hunter, a e'ii?i">us mon«m t ua-j, has be«n charged •,vit?i shooting ftbb.>rt Uraat m the leg with a revolver, and was commuted for trial. The Bishop of Melbourne, m his evidence before the Education Com- ' mission, strongly advocated that re* iitriniiß instru :tion should ba given by masters m school. Mr Archibald Forbps, at his closing 'ecbure last night, said that so long as be had a tongue to wag and a hand to hold a pen, Australia would not lack one loyal champion.