AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 93, 8 June 1877, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, June 5

Four leading counsels have given their opinion that the Bank of New Zealand, and the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, are trading in the Colony with perfect legality and fullest powers.

(Per Australia, via Auckland)

Melbourne, June 1

A woman named Annie Walter cut the throat of her so-called husband, Ryan, and then cut her own, in a fit of jealousy. She lies in a precarious state, but the man was not injured,

The three-masted schooner Young Australian was driven over the reef in Curdie's Inlet, near Warnnambool. Five persons were saved, one was drowned.

Mr Berry, at Geelong, said he would introduce a land tax. He estimated that the yield would be £200,000, which would leave a surplus at the end of the year, the whole to be devoted to the reduction of the tariff. The protective duties are not to be interfered with, but other articles not now protected will be added. A loan for railway purposes will probably soon be required.

Mr, Francis has declined the honour of knighthood. He is understood to hold a very decided contempt for Colonial titles.

Two men were arrested for forgeries on the City of Melbourne Bank. They are supposed to belong to an organised gang* Brisbane, June 1. The motion for £2,000, to form a torpedo brigade, was carried by the Queensland Parliament. • A monster meeting at Kingsborough resolved to petition Parliament to prohibit the Chinese from going on the goldfields.

Syoney, June 1

The Government, in consequence of the vote of the House, withdrew all proposed increase of salaries.

A vote of £100,000 for immigration was carried. Several speakers, in opposition, said that already large numbers were unable to obtain employment in New South Wales.