AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 563, 31 January 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sir Janies M/Cullqiigh has officially accepted the appointment of Agent-General for Victoria.

The miners at Newcastle are holding out for ten hours’ work. Tpe strike is likely to lie a protracted one. ", Sir Benjamin C. C. Pine, Governor of the Leeward Islands, will probably be appointed to the vacant Governorship of “South Australia. ■ Six Prime Ministers will be present at •the conference in Sydney. . The strike at Newcastle is assuming a lasting aspect. Some of the coal-ves-els are leaving in ballast for Wollongong and BullL , -iEgles in the Australasian, says “They say that when Mr. Wtods, one of King Cakobau’s Cabinet Ministers, was lately in Sydney, he conceived that he w..s not treated with the countsy and ceremony •to which his high office entitled him. Mr. Paikes, to whom the complaint was made, delicately hinted that theic was,' ’ perhaps, B imo tlitference between the relative importance and dignity of the offices they respectively occupied. ‘Of course there is, retorted Woods; “I am the Prime Minister of a kingdom—you are the Chief Secretary of a dependency I 1 ”' The convict Weechnrch is likely to become an intolerable nuisance to the autho’ rities at Peutridge. One of his first acts on being placed in the Stockade was to destroy the gas fittings in his cell, and also liis'-iothes, and he has become so uumanagable that it has been found necessary 10 issue written instructions for the guidance of too officials in reference to his treadmuut. His cell, food and clothing are to ,*■’ be minutely examined daily. His cell door is never to be opened unless two of the officials are present. Ho must be escorted to and from the bathroom by two warders, and then carefully watchfd. When at exercise no other prisoners are to ho permitted in the adjacent yards, so that thevo may be no possibility of his. holding'coinmuuicar tion with a lyoao ohe. , ■ There -were issued from the Melbourne Mint during the week ending the' week ending the 31st of Dumber last the sum of IG.OOOt. in sovereign's, making the total amount issued to date 743,000f. The total receipts of gold were 89J, 733 ounces. Mining nows is very satisfactory, both from Ballarat and Sandhurst- At the latter place an immense business is being done in a large number of stocks. It is stated the market has not been so active for the last eighteen months.