AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 396, 21 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[Special to the Mail.]

Brisbane, May 20.

Another discovery of tin has been made at Thornborough, but the locality is at present kept secret.

At the Supreme Court on a verdict being given against Swanwicfc, barrister and member of the Assembly, ■which is tantamount to an implication of profession and malpractices, Griffith, the plaintiff's counsel, complained of tho menacing attitude of Swanwick's brother towards plaintiff. The Judge ordered the arrest of the brother, who was found carrying a revolver and sheath knife. He was sentenced to imprisonment during the pleasure of the Court. The Judge in passing sentence regretted that he was unable to make it imprisonment for twenty years. Sydney, May 20. Sailed—City of Sydney, for Auckland, with outward Frisco mail. Melbourne, May 20. In the Legislative Assembly last night, a motion, in favour of payment of members was carried, on a division by 42 to 28. Messrs Duffy and Gillies, both members.of the Ministry, voted in favor of the motion. Mr Cooper has been elected Chairman of Committees. Mr Service introduced his Reform Bill to-night. The Argus, in discussing the present state of political affairs, admits that Mr Service must experience a difficulty in carrying on the Government in the present Assembly, owing to defections from hi s party,