AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 997, 17 July 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, July 10.

No change has taken place in connection with the wrecks of the George Roper and Black Boy. There is considerable excitement in the locality, which has not abated in the least. Attempts are still being made to recover cargo. The Premier has received an intimation from the Agent-General, stating that the Under Secretary for the Colonies assures him that he knows nothing of the proposal to send the Irish informers to the colonies. The present intention of the Government is to pay the informers certain sums of money and protect them only as long as they remain in Ireland. A petition from -andhurst to the Legislative Assembly states that the mining stocks of Sandhurst have decreased in value LBO,OOO in one day. A disgraceful disturbance, in which a member of Parliament, a Justice of the Peace, and a Licensing Magistrate took prominent parts, occurred in Bourke street, at a late hour on the sth instant, arising out of an M. L. A. lighting a cigar in a ladies’ dining-room.

On Saturday afternoon a man, name unknown, nlshed on the railway lino just as the Sydney down train was leaving Narandera. He was knocked down and killed.

Redmond Bros, have been the cause of a split between Father McKenna and the Roman Catholics at Fitzroy. Mr Redmond applied for the use of a schoolroom for a meeting, which Father McKenna refused, whereupon the ladies of the congregation, who were making efforts for a bazaar in aid of the church, handed in their subscription lists, and refuse •to assist in the matter. The rev. gentleman was still further surprised to find a number of Catholic residents refused to subscribe to the Church extension, the result being he has reconsidered the matter, and now agrees to preside over the meeting shortly to be held. Several waterspouts have been visible at Port Adelaide, but no damage was done.