AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 56, 30 January 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, January 24.

An Italian nobleman, Cour,t Francesco, has arrived at Brisbane, with 40 of hie countrymen, to purchase a large area of land and acclimatise the products of southern Europe. January^s. The Conference met to-day. The business was only formal. Our Premier gives a marine pic-nic to-morrow. The Alhambra left Melbourne to-day for the Bluff. '"~ * Melbourne, January 24. Elder, a jeweller, has called a meeting of creditors. Liabilities, £7000; assets,£4ooo. Arawata. - "•" LATEST EUBOPEAN. London, January 25. ■The' London Press considers that the European Powers are bound to eflforce the demands made by the, Conference. * At a great Tory meeting at Liverpool, Lord Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequof, insisted that it was to the interest of England that peace should be conserved, anH it was that feeling which guided> the Government in its policy regarding/ the Eastern question. He denied charges made that there was any jealbUSMfl

feeling towards Russia. Such statements were only calculated to hamper any efforts intervention on behalf of the Christians of the Turkish provinces. The Government carefully avoided any false policy of coercion. He thought the Porte was free to choosp its own course. No European ••power would be justified in considering the rejection as an insult. Mr. Assheton Cross, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, said he believed the prospects of peace were better than they had been for months past. The Rev. Mr. Woth, vicar of Hutcham, has been imprisoned for deyfing the judgment of the Court of Arches.