AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 368, 30 January 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

(Redtbr's Telegrams.)

[Special to Mail.]

Adelaide, Jan 29

During a ball last night on board the barque Excelsior, lying at port, the crew made an unprovoked attack on the officers, who, were engaged in festivities. They used belaying pins, marlingspikes, and revolvers. The mate was fired at, but the shot missed. All the other officers were wounded more or less severely on the head, and the captain received a serious blow on the right temple. After a great struggle the mutineers were arrested, and will be charged at the Police Court to-day. Sydney, Jan. 29. The special meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society which was to have been held to-day, to consider a proposition by the directors for repeal of nineteenth by-law, allowing voting by proxy in election of directors, and other matters, has been postponed until after the annual meeting of the Society, to be held in April next. Sailed—Cfty of Sydney, for Auckland. Tfrom the lyttelton times.) Sydney, Jan. 27. A man named Goultliard, aged 36, has surroundered himself to the police at Yass, stating that in Jan., 1878, while at Everton, England, he poisoned his wife with prussic acid, weighted the body, and threw it into the Mersey. Shortly afterwards he emigrated to Australia. He now asserta that he is wretched, and sees visions of his wife nightly. Arrived—Arawata, from Auckland. Jan. 28. The Australian Eleven beat fifteen of New South Wales by 75 runs. Sailed—Arawata, for New Zealand. Melbourne, Jan. 27. The date on which the adjournment ann dissolution of the Assembly will take place is still uncertain, owing to the slow progress which is being made with the consideration of the Estimates. Jan. 27. The Asam anchored at seven o'clock this evening. The Ringarooma, with the English mails, leaves at 10 a.m., on Thursday. The Government railway scheme proposes the construction of 410 miles, at a total cost of £2,39G,000.