AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 105, 20 July 1877, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

(Per s.s. Albion via Hokitika) Melbourne, July 11. Parliamentary business is unimportant The Budget will not be delivered till the close of the month. The Minister for Education has stated that the Government measures, which the country has endorsed, would be submitted to the Council quietly, reasonably, and fajrly, so as to give no ekcuse for their rejection, r, The Church Assembly has opened. The Bishop, in his address said that two-thirds of the population were not Church-goers. The Cathedral fund amounts to about £2,000 in promises. Commander Colebrooke Mandeville has been appointed to command the Cerberus vice Lieut. Panter. Dr. Somerville's lectures were attended by large crowds. Recently, over 2000 persons in one night were unable to obtain admission. t The revenue of the Colony during the past year was £4,514,121, showing an increase of £188,962 on the previous year. Sir W. Jervois has been seriously indisposed, but is now recovering. Government is arranging for a Cape route service. They have re-opened j negotations with Messrs Green, of Blackwall line. Oats are very firm, extreme rates being obtained. ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN NEWS , . ; The polling for Tipperary resulted in the returning of Mr. Grey, ,son of the late Sir John Grey, Home Ruler. For Montgomery, the Hon Fred Hanbury Tracey, liberal, was returned. An Anti-Russian demonstration took place in Hyde Park at which 15,000 persons were present. A resolution was passed denouncing the Russians, condemning the Mussulman atrocities and agitators, and demanding the fulfilment of the tripartite treaty of 1856. Mr. Pierrepoint, American Minister in England, who has become exceedingly popular during his short siay, announced as about to leave. An inquest on the five persons who lost their lives by the inundation in the Troedyrhiw pit resulted in a verdict

against the manager, Mr. Thomas, for Culpable negligence. . The Earl of Shrewsbury smd 'Talhnt died suddenly on May 11, from disease of the heart. .The Queen has granted a petition of £75 per annum each "to three old maiden ladies, descendjints of Daniel Defoe, who were in greatly reduced circumstances.