AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 435, 21 September 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Melbourne, September 20

Thieveß entered Government House yesterday while His Excellency the Marqnis of Normanby and guests were at dinner, and carried off £150 worth nf jewellery bolongiug to Lady and Miss Kobinson. It has been decided to postpone the races in honor of Sir Hercules Robinson until Saturday next, owing to the heaviness of the course caused by the recent rains and floods. The Sorata's back is broken, and pumping has been stopped ; all hope of saying her has been abandoned. The Siam with the inwaid Suez mail has arrived here. ( t The weather to-day is fine and it is expected there will be a large attendance vt the race meeting in honor of Sia H. Robinson. Brisbane, Sept. 20. The steamer Ripple arrived from the Soloman Islands yesterday morning, with only the captain and Three Kanakas, mate and engineer, steward and a passenger named Tom Pense, and :five wounded Kanakas (one of whom is not expected to recover). The captain reports that while trading at one of the islands with natives, who had come on board the latter suddenly attacked them the crew repulsed assault with cifficulty, but killed fifty of the natives.

Tbe latest device of pickpockets is to iickle with a long coarse Lair the nose of ladies who happen to be looking into shop windows. The lady naturally applies her pocket-handkerchief to her nose, and the thief takes the opportunity of abstracting her puree. The steel-dospatch veseel Iris has broken down while on her trial trip in the Channel, her engines having succumbed to the severe tests imposed upon them. When big trees begin to shoot it's about time for the little bushes to leave. He called her the " lovely haired girl of Attica," and the compositor very naturally put it in print " the lively hired girl in the attic." A negro teamster in Nashvillo declares that he nwet either give up driving mulos or withdraw from the church, the two positions being incompatible. A young printer having an occasion, the other day to set up the well-kuown line. "SUve, I have set my life upon a cast!'" astonished tho proof-ieader with the following verision :—Slave, I hiive set my \vii:« upon a cank !"

" Mary," said a mother to her little girl. "if I was a little girl like you I ehould pick up those chips." " Well, mamma/ " ain't you glad you are not a little gir l ?'' A wealthy manufacturer of Cannecticut having built an elegant mansion, and wishing to take a second wife, said to bis architect: " Which agrees best with bricks and brown stone, a brunette or a blonde ?" "How are you to-day?" inquired a doctor of his patient. " A little better, thank you." " Have you taken any dinner to-day?" "Yes, a little goose." "With appetite ?" "No sir with sauce." The rabbit is timid but the cook ctnno

make it quail. Chung How, late Chinese Ambaesador at St. who concluded the Kuldja treaty with Russia, and was impeached and afterwards reprieved, has now been finally released by the Chinese

Government

The Christchurch Echo has been en

larged, and is now issued at one penny. The daily circulation of the Melbourne Age is said to average 41,500 copies.