AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 4, 3 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per s.B. Te Anau at Bluff.) [By Telegraph.] , (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ..-. . Melbourne, Nov. 25. The Rev. Charles Strong, the late minister of the Scotch Church, arrived ! from Europe by the s.s Ganges, and was warmly welcomed. His visit is purely due to private business. SnmßY, Nov. 25. The Government has received a telegram from the Agent-General slating that the 3| per cent. New South "Wales Loan is quoted at 95. Some anxiety was felt recently for the safety of the steamer Hera. She was eventually picked up with a broken shaft, and towed here. A- severe cyclone passed over the Gratton districts on Saturday. Trees were uprooted, houses blown down, cattle killed, find buildings damaged. . . Brisbane, Nov. 25. j The Australia Steam Navigation j Opn)p#n^'& '8.8. Gunga is reported ashore near Cape Bowling Green. ] The trial ofM'Neilj for the murder j of two Soil th - Sen Islanders is pro- j ceeding. Adelaide, Nov. 25. A. deal of excitement prevails consentient" upon numerous destructive fires recently reported. Last Saturday night an impression got abroad that a large fire would breakout. The streets were consequently thronged with people, and the Die brigades.; kept on the ~<fivp. they wep not required. . ( A second case of cuminal outragp on a wpman 190k place on Saturday.l Two men were arresteji on the charge.. The citizens talk of forming a Vigj-j lance Committee iov self-protection, agiuust criminals.