AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 233, 29 August 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per Tarawera via Auckland).

(united press association.) Sydney, August 22. The talk of the great bout race has pretty well subsided. Beach hns been feasted and lionised, and is about to retnrn to his home at Dapto. The general opinion is that Beach won on his merits, and khat the Tomki affair really did not make any material difference. The umpire has given that, m his opinion, Hanlau held his man rather too cheap, and no doubt neg- - leefced necessary precautions m training. Whether he will wait six months to again row Beach is not yet decided, but Beach positively declined to row under the time. At the opening of the Glen Innes Railway, Mr Dibbs, Acting-Minister of Public "Works, gave some indication of the G-ovemment Railway policy. He said it was their intention to construct some seven hundred miles of ■: railway, and introduce a scheme for covering the naturally flat plaias with a light system of service railways, constructed with 601 b steel rails, with the taking 1 stock upon them will - not be 20 per cent, more than the cost of making macadamised roads. Mr Dibbs also condemned, as a gross libel on the colony, a letter published m the Engineer reflecting on the rail- i way system of management m the '■■■ colony. Inspector TJrquhart and Mo Runedy, partner .of Powell, lately murdered by the blacks, have ieturn-» ed to Cloncurry. They -found Powell's body horribly mutilated, They came upon a hundred and fifty black 8 twenty miles from the scene of the niurdw, feasting afcei' having killed fifty head of cattle. ■ ; .: The steamer Timor, just arrived at . Cooktown from Hongkong, reports :. the Chinese to be making great pre-. parations to prevent the French from . building fortificatians and eaithworksu The steamer Guthrie has also arrived, She had to leave Fnochow under iustractions on the 3rd August. : . . • MelboitbnEj August 22. ' Tho Australian Frozen Meat Company have ceased shipping meat for y ' Home market •at present, because^of' the erection of new machinery. The new plant includes a' Hjelam machine^ ' which can supply 100,000 ft cold air ' per hour! — '-'- ! Resolutions have been Agreed to by th'e Assembly, increasing the thity O oni l ' ; J perfumed spirits from 20s to 24s a gal,lon.' • ..■•'-"- ■•'• '•' ••-■■ '/-' J