AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 339, 17 October 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[FBQM THE.','.LXTTEtTOH TIMES," ~ v ,. ; ..... by, „ Telegraph.]

(Per City of Sydney, via Auckland.)

The City of Sydney brings news to Oct 9:

NEW SOUTH WALES,

At the recent quinquennial meeting of «. the Australian Mutual Provident Society, a resolution was proposed and. carried to present the Chairman of the Society.with £1000. The Board, at a meeting, refused to carry out the resolution, on the ground -■ ■*** that it was ultra vires of the meeting in default of previous notice. The demonstration in connection with the Intercolonial Trades Union Congress was highly successful, there being-3000 processionists. The Congress ~ discussed the question of assisted emigration, aiid it was almost unanimously condemned. The Congress also asserted the necessity and proprietary of legalizing Trade ... At Yass, a man assisting in the erection of Lion's circus, slipped down the_ centre . of a pole, impaling the front of his body m on a hook fixed thereon.. The wound is expected to -prove-fatal. ■ ■ 'Airee pardon; bearing the Queen's autograph,'has been handed to Edmund Galley by Sub-Irispeciorlßrennah; Galley, nearly «- forty years ago, was sentenced to death for a.murder p Exeter, England, but ;the sentence was'-cbrrifnintedtd banishment for life: Since theft 1 events have-proved Mb innocence of tbe arime..; n.:.y..< '■■■'•* .The. attendance at. daring the last three .days aggregate, 1000-adults and 1400 children.; ditto season tickets, §000: Exhibitors are free, and the'takings sayje7i)o.- !!; ''' 7'"-" ;'■ ■'.'" ; ■'""■.".; ■■■ *-« ; MVLihklater.'a barrieteir; has been arrested on the charge of bigamyrota board thfe ship J..Da|ble, and Captain Hutchison, . ' on the charge of ..embezzlement while. Secra* '. tary of the, Australian Club, were brought ■* before the -Water Police Oourfr together-on Monday, Oct 6. •' ''■> -7 ] r -i ,, ~' !l - '"; \. At the Central.;Coui:t,, Jane, Parspnage, formerly a principal of, the , F Opera Company and "a" great favourite iri. "Girofle," was sentenced to a;ifihe«if.'j4os, . or a fortnight's imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly. - VICTORIA. Alfred Telo r -a .journalist; known as " Attictfs*' of 'the Leader, is'deadi aged ; 50 - t- r (* ' ■■■''"' I '- ' ; ! A w6man I name'd , -Lester, • a . prostitute, ! who had accumulated a considerable sum ■of under euch suspicious cir- | cumstances that an' analysis has been con-" sidered necessary. — The Sandhurst strike continues. Mr George Lancel, a great.' claimholder, . has reduced the wages on all his claims. : There is this difficulty in the position, that : if'the,mines lie long idle the water'will rise and; entail great trouble and expense. .Me-^- —T s *? > Lahcell refused to receive a deputationirom.

miners on strike. He blames the Government for forcing a reduction in tbje wages* by their heavy protective duties. " -U ■ A deputation, representing the Protestant denominations, interviewed the-Minister of Educatoin in favor of the'maintenance of the present Education Act. The Minister expressed his satisfaction at the opinion of the deputation. In Sydney,, five schools* only, out of 1600, had asked for' religious, instruction. ' ' " ' *

Tho Hon Graham Berry's'health is fluctuating. He has been very ill, and has suffered several fainting fits and great nervous exhaustion. Occasionally He has-been con fined to his bed. ' ■"