AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 163, 13 February 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per .sVje A nan at, theßluff.) (UNITED PRESS 1 AfcsbCLVTIJQN.) litELBOURN^, JaWtSy 5. Mr Kerferd, the " il ( iitorney-&eneral, and Mr GKlligs, the Minister of Railways, visit New Zealand lafcout the mid.lle of the Month. „ The -Borough of-Sandrjdge has formally changed its iufine-to Port Melbourne. . . . A meeting of persons interested m the western pastoral distric.s of NewSouth Wales, was held at Scoti's Hotel, for the purpose of considering the proposal to separate Riverina from New South -Wales -to-forma-distinct colony. The speakers confglained of the way the'district was treated m being unable t<> -get' railway communication with Victoiia/Labfdia 1 - committee was nominated to form a separate league,; and drawmap a petition praying for separ^tipn,^.an^ pointing ouc the reason. ~ . . „ Mr Alexander*; . manager ' o f the Australian .Eleven^ has"' arranged for their depautuire for England by the steamer Sutleigh; On ithe-igp^ilarch. A mo^emeat-hasjorigiixaje^. for the formation -*>f a Kalizoik Society m Melbourne, for thosdjßJ&ijrageaSfcnt of a taste, fofc the ; beautiful and artistic, and to promote -the planting of trees m town, purification of sluni^i&o, The. steamer. Lismore has been, floated off the Richmond river bar, where she was aground, and is not much damaged. Meetings continue to bo held m various parts of Ihe colony tbj' protest against the.new_ taxation proposals of the Government: - ''■ 1* -^ j < The Government gardener m the Northern Territory, reports that the. sugar cane has dpn^ ' remarkably well, anil the ekperime&ts m coffee-growing; have succeeded m suitably, localities. &OBABT, February 3. A man named -Harnett, who came from New Zealand^ about, a year ago, shot himself ijj; front of 'the ; Treasury. Twenty-three perils have been fined £3eacE^for pulling do wn-a fence at regatta tune/ A" subscription waa made to pay the At ,a temperance mission., hold by the Bishop of Tasmania^ Dean ' Brotn. ley and the Revrjohn Gray were decorated with the Blue Ribbon, amidi much enthusiasm* ■i?