INTERCOLONIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 455, 29 November 1875, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ( Per s.s. Easby.) Melb iuiinb, November 15. An unpleasant circumstance happened on th ctiurHH on Siturday. Some bookmakers accused Mr Mason, M L.A., of being a defaulter, and wanted him turned off the course. The matter is now under investigation. He was afterwards shown to have been wrongfully accused. A younj; man named Nicholas Garrick has been drowned in the Yarr < through the n setting of a boat. Sir Redmond Barry is likely to accept position of Huuoi •••y .>.iiii!ssk>uer io IUo Philadelphia Exbibin>>n. The settling on the races is proceeding satisfactorily. Wheat is quiet, and unchanged. New currants, fijd, Mr George Fairbairn's Till Till station, in Riverina, has been sold, with 70,000 sheep, to the New Zealand L-iud Association.

It appears there is s me misapprehension as to Lady Darling's death, telegraphed from London on 25th. A letter received by the mail up to the Ist of October irom near relatives make no mention of it, and no notice of it appears in the Home papers. 16 th November. The Victorian Racing Club has made over £6OOO by the late meeting. The Government are making reductions in the public service. The intercolonial small-bore rifle match resulted as follows:—Victoria, 1229; New South Wales, 1182. The exhibition was closed to-day by his Excellency the Acting-Governor with some ceremony. There was a large attendance, fcir Redmond Barry stated that the fxhiblts numbered fonr thousand, and the attendance had reached nearly a quarter of a million. Fulton, charged wirti causing the death of his wife at St Kilda, has been acquitted. Very little business doing. Flour is rather stiffer, at £3O 10s. 18th November. Thomas Dal by, Colling wood (Registrar), and Ross, concerned in illegal marriage, were found guilty, but recommended to mercy. Sentence deferred. A telegram has been received, stating that the barque ITormosa, bound from Newcastle to Manilla, was wrecked on the Phillippine Islands on the 29th October. The crew were saved. Adelaide, November 18. A successful trial was made on Saturday of Westinghouse's air-brake, fitted to a special train. A stoppage was effected in thirty-four seconds, when the train was travelling at the rate of fifty-three miles per hour. John Sheriff, boatswain of the St Vincent, jumped overboard, and was drowned during the passage. An emergency sale of wheat took place at 5s B£d afloat. Sydney, November 17. The following items are from the Evening Newsoi the 17th: — The strike which existed among the lumpers, owing to shipowners and others having refused to give them ten hours' pay for eight hourß* labor, virtually ceased some few days ago. There was no probability of the masters conceding what was asked, and as the requirements of the port were being met by sailors on the ships arriving here, and by working men who Hocked in from the country, several of

the men on strike, who were all through opposed to the movement, turned to work, and they were soon followed by larye numbers, till there was a general desire for employment. The result of the strike has been that the men return to work on former terms as to hours of labor and pay, and a thing not dreamt of before, consent to work with nonunion men. It was generally admitted by the men they did not find themselves penniless till they went on strike, a result which often fiuds its parallel in such matters.

The motion in the Legislative Assembly last night for adopting the address in rep ] y to the Governor's speech wis cairied without amendment, though not without a somewhat spirited debate. The appointment of what were termed " political judges," the visit of the Colonial Treasurer to England, and certain alleged laches on the part of the Government in connection with the administration of justice, were the pegs upon which the Opposition hung their principal arguments against the Government ; but, as no obstruction was offered to the parsing of the motion, it may be assumed th.it there is no disposition on the part of the Opposition to harass the Government by endeavouring to bring about a crisis. His Excellency the Governor will receive the address in reply to his opening speech at a quarter-past four o'clock this afternoon. For the purpose of presenting the address the House, last nigUt adjourned till half-past three o'clock this day. Immediately after the House meets, hon members will proceed to Government House to pnseut the address. The cable is interrupted between Penang and Madras, and also between Nagasaki and TJladinostock. Business for India and countries to the west will be posted from Singapore or Penang, to Galle, Moulmein, Rangoon, or Calcutta, as opportunities, which are frequent, offer. The mail steamer leaves Penang for Galle on Friday, about noon. Will carry business over the fault. The opinion of Messrs Brown, QC, and Gordon, respecting the possibility of onr recovering anything from the Park Gate Company, for the supply of the infamous'y bad iron supplied to this colony, at the highest price of good material, was laid upon the table of the Assembly yesterday, as a Parliamentary paper. The counsel namad are of opinion that as the contract was not entered into with the Commissioner for Railways, an officer this colony does not possess, there is nothing valid to sue upon. The approval also of the Superintending Engineer in England would preclude the possibility of a verdict against the company. As to returning the unused rails, Messrs Brown and Gordon are of opinion that such an offer could be made only, and would inevitably be refused, and they advise the Government to quietly put up with their loss. Gladstone, November 15. Captain Delamarque reports that the barque Camilla arrived yesterday, from Noumea, sth November. He landed ninetysix bullocks at the Isle of Pines on 22nd October, without loss. On 30th October, picked up a ship's longboat with two men (Swedes), named Ollaf Brand audCarl Petersen, who reported they had been seventeen days at sea. They ran away from the Danish ship, Dr Grant, at Apollo Island. They said the ship was iii bad oider, the captain dead, and a common sailor was acting mate. The old mate's name w;i« not huowu by them, who had beei nine mouths in the ship Camilla rti<- men were destitute, and had in ■> one bi-euit eft. On the return of the • , to Noumea, they will be handed over to n French authoi ities.