AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, Jan. 28

The Bulli lock-out has been ; settled. Union is permitted, with reservations in the employers' interests';" n

At the Anniversary regatta yesterday, Magic, in a match lasting? 3 hours and 33 minutes, beat the Waitangi, a yacht rom New Zealand, by 12 minutes. •

Jan. 29. Rush has challenged Laycock, to scull him for £200. , \ .

Sir Hercules Robinson, by the mail, received his commission as Governor of New Zealandj-and Jwill probably" leave at the end of February.', .- ~';<"-.

The Sapphire leaves Sydney on Saturday for Aucklandj and will arrive there about Feb. 10, stay a week and proceed to Plymouth to. be paid off. /...".,,'■ ['' : '

The' San Francisco mail-leaves about the end of February. '

The Bulli lock-out men. return r ta. the Union, and future difficulties',will be settled by arbitration. . : i

Montgomery w,as sentenced , to : five yeare' hard labor for the robbery at Government House.

Sailed—Wakatipu on Saturday. \ Melbourne:, Jan. 29. Tiie'Cjibmethas: resolved to support the of South Wales and iii-regulating• Chinese immi- '; ';*■■"■, ■';;':; >;/' t ■\..:\ h: \\'/. .' ■ A Board has been; appointed to enquire into the';c|rpftmstahces connected with the'escape of Weiberg. ■■ A man was admitted into the hospital almost p"ufe'eles&, after a veal dinner in a Bourke street restaiifaat. - '

The Ringarooma has arrived. The Australian exports of wool since Jan. 1 are 98,000 bales. . _ The A.rawata takes the English mail. Brisbane, Jan. 29. The schooner Ariel from San Francisco, which has arrive 4in Cooktown, reports » vain search for. the reported Guinea Islands.' ■ . ■ . The UoWen, naail steamer, has arrived, at Cooktown, i.* ' v •; There have been, heavy gales in the China Seas, a'hcl'ihe loss ;is reported of the Madagascar, fifty days out. Great damage has been done at Thursday Island. •