We give in another column a digest of Mr Sutton’s Bill for amendment of the present Licensing Act. Mr J. E. Brown, the member for St. Albans, has been ill for some days past, and is still suffering from a severe cold.
On dit that several business men in Cuba street, struck by the novelty and brilliancy of Swann’s electric light, as exhibited on board the steamer Manapouri, contemplate intro ducing it into their respective business pre mises.
A horse owned by a Native residing at Pe tone strayed on to the railway line Mouday morning, and was killed by the first down train. Ail effort was made to stop the train, but it proved unsuccessful. Only a very trifling delay was occasioned by the accident. To give a penny inland postal rate Victoria will sacrifice over L 60,000 of her yearly revenue. The South Australian Postmaster-General has declined to introduce the uniform penny postage system into that colony, ou the ground that the change involved a loss of £20,000 yearly.
