AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1026, 20 August 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[rKUTEr’s TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] Death of Archbishop Vaughan. Sydney, Yesterday. A telegram has been received l here to-day from England announcing'that the Most Rev, R. B. Vaughan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, died suddenly at Liverpool yesterday. The intelligence has been received with universal regret. The Queensland Elections* Brisbane, Saturday. The polling for the general elections is proceeding. The following Ministers have been re-elected :—Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, Premier and Colonial Secretary; Mr .Archer, Colonial Trea* surer; and Mr Perkins, Secretary for Lands. The final returns from Towns* ville are not yet received, and-’there-fore it is uncertain whether Mr Macrossan, the Secretary for Public Works, has been re-elected. Mr King, Speaker of the Assembly, has been defeated for Maryborough. [Received August 20, 1.20 p.m.J The Suez Mail. Melbourne, To-day. Arrived—P. and O. steamship Assam with the Suez mail dated London July 13th. The French in the Pacific. “ The Vagabond" writes to the Argus from the Islands that the Dart {sic) has landed a party at Amboryn (?) to attack a village in that locality, the scene of the murder of Gapt JBelbin. “ The Vagabond ” also asserts that the lieutenant of the French warship d’Eslres, recently bought‘the island of Irirki. The transaction was nominally a private one, but was really on behalf of the French Government. The Annexation Conference. Mr Service has telegraphed to the Government of New Zealand asking when they will be able to reply to the invitation to the joint annexation conference. Meanwhile the convention is at a stand-still and the Argus urges that it is important no time should bfi-lost, in view of the French activity in the Pacific.

- Shipping News. > Adelaide, To-day.-Arrived Messagefies Maritipies steamship Marseilles.' The Merchant Shipping and Upd e Fr writers’ Association, under date. Lon? don, i8 l .h August, report the arrival of the Margaret Galbraith, from Timaru j Elizabeth, from Oamaru; Gainsborough, from Lyttelton ; and Soukar, from Lyttelton.