AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 949, 22 May 1883, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

_■.. ♦ rrr Melbourne, May 14. The question of opening the Art pallory on Sunday has been a great bone of: contention lately, petitions for and against tt hieing numerously signed. Perhaps those in favor of the movement have been most largely signed. The attendance on both £taS%39''#nflfv the; opening of ; this institution has been very large, the frequenters being most orderly. y 1 y i 1 Another shocking burning fatality is reported from Warragal, Gippsland, by which Mrs Condon and two infant children lost their lives through the burning of a weather-board cottage. The Kennedy family is doing well. The City Council intend to float a loan of L 200,000 to carry out various w > Ics,, including the drainage of Elizabeth, street. . . " " * IteyilA A fataiuhoM.j'iceidenr/haa occurred on Lake McQuarrie. Three men went out fishing, and the boat has been found bottom op, and the bodies of two man > have been twffjH&n 0 s?he. * j ttygd -{iarto?t ye k found. The weather has been very wet. Five inches of rain fell in Sydney last week. Mr Redmond contiihles ( hia ( .lecturing tour in the colony. .. At Goulburn he was compelled to apeak iha, marquee. His language generally has Deen*Hempecate. r Henry Jth§| Biupswick Kn.nlr reaentlv arrested;■ -bad in-’ tended lesS&igfor ’Frisco. > % The as. tuTnUti Jniil nrhundred carcases. They are believed to be the best shipped. ” Bishop Selwyn is urging the claims of the South Sea mission to public support. The Postal Conference having concluded, the delegates!'left'.6h’the7l4th. The results arrived at are considered satisfactory—- The- —Conference agreed ♦hat all the colonies should apply for admission to the Postal Union ; that the stipulations suggested by the Postmaster-General of England bo insisted on; that each of the colonies be accorded a separate voice in the affairs of the Upion ; jlso, for the adjustment of loss incurred by each colony by adopting the Postal Union cates. Amongst othor things it was agreed to improve ■ the packet and parcel .post rate ; that if was ■ J-thatfifteen letters be allowed as the minimum length of each word between tho Australian colonies; and the establishment of postal notes, and a reduction of 2£j per cent on press telegram's from England. The question of a federal quarantine, was also considered, and the establishment of stations at Albany and Thursday Island. Queensland withheUirom the Cqnforeppe, and declined't J'igSe 1 Wittt thdtoriha of the Postal Union ; and New Zealand also declined*^he-jwhole T westjop .is to be plaoedTfefdre the L New Zealfihd Government. The Conference wired to obtain their acquiescence. > Jja of the Impawn.! Government being üßable - 'to remove any difficulties that might arise ,in - carrying out tho dual system, the whole of the resolutions will be of no effect. The belief is current ini nertifiii circles hope' that the position of New South Wales will not be improved, and it is stated that the results of the not be ratified by Parliament. Brisbane. Mr of PLajids* hasjreceived a letter from Connecticut, asking for information as to the prospects American emigrants would have in Queensland, and stating that a large number of mechanics and farmers would like to emigrate to Queensland. .H/. • J i} > - ' Adelaide. At the North Adelaide Congregational Church, tho Rev. O. Copeland preached against gambling in connection with races.He contended that racing fostered gam-, bling, and could not exist without it. The Legislature and those that upheld the sport encouraged a great national sin. He deprecated the support given by the Governor, Sir T. Elder, and other leading -colonists, but at the same time he admitted that men such as Sir T. Elder and Sir H ercnfeg-Rofannoii never betted. - '