AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 353, 30 July 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

We extract the following items of Australian news from our exchanges The Orange demonstrations in New South Wales were very successful. A Stanthorpe private company has offered to construct a railway to Warwick, through Stanthorpe, and to the border of the colony of Queensland upon such terms as will not require a loan for three years. The Victoria Land Bill committee have resolved that the maximum area for selection shall be increased to 640 acres. An attempt is being made in Melbourne to form a New Guinea expedition, and establish a trading factory at Morseby Harbour. Several merchants support the scheme. The Commercial Bank dividend is 8 per cent; £4476 was carried forward. A new German paper, under the editorship of Dr Hubbe, will be started in October next in Adelaide. The City of Ningpo’s cargo of wheat from Adelaide to England was sold at 4s 2d, At Goulburn a hawker’s employe was fined £4O for selling under his employer’s license. Notice of appeal was given. Mary Ann Pope, an elderly woman, was burned to death in bed at Richmond. The Melbourne markets are dull. Flour is easier. A private letter, received in Sydney a few days ago from Norfolk Island, announces the intention of erecting a memorial church to the late Bishop Patteson. Part of the foundation is already laid, and the “ corner stone” will be fixed in about a month. The letter is dated 13th June. A man named Thomas Romaine had several of his ribs hurt, and received a scalp wound through falling off his horse on Tuesday night. He was admitted into the Sydney Infirmary. i A fearful affray took place in Hunter street, Newcastle, last night at eleven o’clock between the crews of two ships. A man named Benjamin Baker had his skull laid open, and was conveyed to the hospital in a very dangerous state. A man named William Campbell was charged at the Police Court to day with the assault, and remanded for eight days, so as to give the injured man time to recover, so as to give evidence. Further telegrams received at Adelaide report that Johnston was speared while barking a tree; the police are at Barrow’s Creek, but as it is 600 miles distant, probably a force will be organised at Yam Creek to punish the natives. A -cargo of 80,000 bushels of wheat has been sold at Adelaide for transhipment to England. Yesterday morning an infant named Wm. Wright, fifteen months old, whilst playing in Kent street, Sydney, was knocked down and run over by a cart. The child sustained injuries to one of his arms. Mr Phillips is now at Bathurst, singing sacred songs. Wherever he goes, the Pilgrim gathers together large and attentive audiences. Mr Phillips has already appeared at several of the Wesleyan churches in the city and suburbs, and at Newcastle and Maitland. It is estimated that the total export of pearl shells from Western Australia—the yield of the season just closed —amounted to nearly 300 tons, of which one sixth were sent to Singapore for transhipment to vessels proceeding to England viz Suez Canal, “ Tree-planting at Geelong,” according to the Advertiser, “ has this season assumed formidable dimensions, and greatly improved many of the streets in which it has been carried out. The latest work of the kind is the planting of English trees on the footpath opposite the market-reserve, in Yarra street, similar to the eastern side. This was being done yesterday. A great many of the streets in the eastern part of the town have had a row put along one side, and in many instances both sides. One of the greatest improvements is the planting of a row of trees from the hospital up to the cemetery, which, combined with those already planted, will in time to come form a most agreeable shade during the summer to persons walking that way, besides materially adding to the appearance of the road. Garden, Fitzroy, Malop, and Byrie streets have also received their share, together with Yictoria-parade, on the Western beach, Other streets are also to receive attention. The Melbourne Arcjus says:—Mr Hugh Lennod’s agricultural implement works, near the North Melbourne Railway Station, are a potably successful colonial industry. The premises occupy three acres of ground, and one shop is 800 ft long. There are twentyfour forges, two furnaces, two large steam hammers, an eighteen-horse power engine, and all the appliances necessary for carrying on a large manufacturing business. Nothing obtained at this factory is imported but the raw material. Every portion of the agricultural implements sold is made here. The brapkets fpr reaping machines are made of Tasmanian iron, which costs 30s per ton more than the imported iron, which is found to be yvpll worth the additional cost. Among the many ingenious appliances in use is a steam saw, which cuts joints out of solid hot iron, and does in a superior way what used to be effected in an inferior way by welding. There are about ninety hands employed in the factory, consisting of engineers, fitters, blacksmiths, painters, &c. It is stated that the firm will this season turn out 700 common ploughs, about 100 double-furrow ploughs, and about 200 reaping machines,