AUSTRALIAN.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1141, 3 January 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per s.s. Tarawera at the Bluff.) Per Press Association. Melbourne, Dec. 28. The Art gallery at the Public Library was opened for the first time to-night, being lighted with the electric light, and the experiment .was very successful. At the inquest on the bodies of the four men killed at the Duke \ "Mine last week, the jury returned a j verdict of manslaughter against Jones, the engine driver. ; The result of the experimental lighting of Elizabeth street by plecf trie light shows the cost to amonnt to £456 as against £%$% for gas, and the. Council therefore have decided to .discontinue the use of the electric light. ■;■-■. ,.':.= 7 Sydney. <~> Five Frenchmen, who it is believed j ate escapees from New Caledonia, Have been remanded until the police j get extradition warrants. I 7 The -wife of Hanley Bennett, ex M.L.A. for Tamworth, has .committed suicide by cuttiugher throat. ».<;'; Adelaide. I Sir Thomas Elder announces bis intention of presenting; -61 000 to the Conncilof the Adelaide University for the purpose of f oiinding a mcdi**' cal school m connection with the ajniyersity. The offer has been accepted. ■"■: ■■■".- , Miss Harriet Miller, daughter of "Hugh Miller the Scotch geologist, died to-day, aged 43.