AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 366, 23 January 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

("Special to the Mail.] Melbourne, Jan. 21. Parliament will be dissolved on the sth February.

No performance took place last night at the Academy of Music, in consequence of the prohibition issued by Mr Berry.

Sailed—Rotomahana, for New Zealand, yesterday.

Jan. 22.

Parliament re-assembled on Tuesday, and there wos a scene of continued excitement. In the Assembly last night strangers were again excluded.

Arrived — Ringarooma, from New Zealand.

Sydney, Jan. 21. A sum of £S GOO has been remitted to the Lord Mayor of London as a contribution towards the Irish Relief Fund. - Thirty-six Chinese residents of Sydney subscribed together the sum of £114. Jan. 22. In the Legislative Assembly last night, the Hon. James Watson, Colo- fc nial Treasurer, announced that Government had no intention to propose additional taxation in lieu of the intended excise duties on colonial beer and * tobacco recently rejected or withdrawn. Sailed — Wakatipu, s.s., for Wellington. A meeting is to be held at Newcastle to-morrow to consider means to alleviate the distress existing amongst the miners. An attempt was made to-day by a , mounted man to bail up some Chinese living near Gundagai. The matter was reported to the police, who are now in pursuit of the supposed bushranger. King George's Sound, Jan. 22. Arrived—P. and 0. Co's steamship Assam, with inward (December) Suemail. ("from the lyttelton times.) Sydney, Jan. 20. The Wantabagery bushrangers, Scott and Rogan, were executed to-day. The sentence of death was carried out privately, the Press and public being excluded. ' Scott's confession and autobiography have been handed to Canon Rich, and it is expected that they may form the subject of an enquiry into the Egerton Bank robbery. They are said to-implicate others in a conspiracy. Trickett has announced his intention of proceeding to > England for the purpose of rowing Hnnlon, the Canadian sculler. Melbourne, Jan. 21. The Gippsland bushranger has surrendered. Adelaide, Jan 21. The heat is intense. The thermometer registered 113 in the shade. Severe bush fires are raging. [Special.] Sydney, Jan. 20. Scott, the bushranger, finally denied having shot Bowen, the constable, or being concerned in the death of F. M. Bates, the actor. He wrote voluminously. Mrs Amess, his affianced wife, attended him to the last, and defrayed the cost of the fuueral. Melbourne, Jan. 21. Mauritius telegrams state that since Jan. 8, 900 tons of sugar have been bought for Adelaide and Melbourne. There is good demand for tonnage. The New Zealand grain market is firm and active. New Zealand oats, milling, are wanted at 3s.