AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 323, 22 August 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

f Special to the Mail.]. ' ! Melbourne, August 21.; An unexampled scene of violence took place in the Legislative Assembly, last' night between Mr D, Gaunson, member for Ararat, and the Hon J. B. Patterson, Minister of Public Works. . .. . The division on the budget is expected to take place to-night. t , i

(from the lyttelton times.) Sydney, August 19. A detachment of Artillery and Police, fully armed, have proceeded to Newcastle to quell, if necessary, expected riots among the miners. : ~ . Affairs at Lambton are quiet. Several miner's meetings have been held, and a lock-ont of the Lambton men is probable. August 20. All the colliers resumed work to-day, pending the adoption of their decision to work eight days fortnightly, instead of continuing the vend system. The police and troops have left the mines, but remain at Newcastle for the present. Melbourne, August 19. The robbers of the Commercial Bank at Lancefield were captured last night at Sandhurst. They are named Grey and Lowe. The latter recently committed a murderous assault on his master. All the money has been recovered. ■ Sailed—Albion. : August 20. The - Commercial Bank robbers have made a full confession of their guilt. The proposed new tariff has been severely criticised in the Legislative Assembly. Sailed—Eingarooma. Newcastle, August 19. The disturbance was' exaggerated. There was no real necessity for the despatch of the military. the Lancefield robber, states that he had no revolver, bat only a meerschaum pipe case; : Lowe; was wanted for a ferocions assault on an Italian the day previous to the Bank affair. He had decoyed the man into the bush under pretence ofhaving discovered a reef, inflicted a murderous blow on his ' head with a stick, and then went and ransacked the house.