GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 162, 17 December 1872, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

J ❖ ! The M dhourne Exhibition is to be kept i open till January. | A Larrikin Club lias been established at | Collingwood, for the reformation of street •; boys. A late English telegram says a Mr Galston I j will take out a University amateur rowing >I crew to Sydney. , i A female acrobat, the other day, fell from , I the flying trapeze in the Bendigo theatre, and J was nearly killed. The natives recently attempted to spear I the Government Resident at Palmerston, ' | Northern Territory. The contract for the erection of new Go- . I vernment Houses in Melbourne has been acj cepted. The amount is L.fi 1,00.). j. I The young men who ravished Mary Bradley II in a pleasure boat in Sydney harbour some 1 ! time ago have been sentenced to ten years’ ’ I penal servitude. 1 1 Sir Alexander Cockburn has received from > the Queen an autograph letter thanking him i j for his distinguished services in connection i; with the Geneva arbitration. ; The upper and lower Houses of Parliament l in Victoria are at a deadlock relative to certain 1 1 amendments made by the former on the Education Bill. A Conference failed to bring : a satisfactory result. 1 j The New South Wales Upper House has 1 rejected the Bill abolishing the newspaper • j postage. The Assembly resists this action, ) on the ground that it is unconstitutional for s| the Council to deal with a question of taxas tion. A collision between the two Houses e is imminent. Q Adelaide telegrams say Sir James Fergusson declined to accept a testimonial, but was publicly and privately feted. The state--0 I ment of his intended marriage has been conr ' tradicted in a Tasmanian journal by the lady’s j friends. On his departure, the Government e | refused the Port Artillery permission to fira i a salute.