AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1548, 4 February 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[special to press agency.] Melbourne, Februarv 3. McClure and Valentine failed for £IOO,OOO. Business is disturbed. The Underwriters' Association report under date, London, 28th January, arrived, ship Electra, from Port Chalmers. [beuteb's telegrams to the pbess AGENCY.] Sydney, February 3. A man was arrested on Saturday on his arrival from England, charged with fraudulent insolvency at Hull. The body of Captain Fiaser, of the brig Tenbrook, has been recovered. Governor Weld, of Tasmania, is now mentioned as the new Governor of New South Wales. Owing to rain, the cricket match, English Eleven v. Eighteen of Bathurst, was unfinished. [Via Wellington.] Sydney, January 29. A Supply Bill for the month of January, covering an expenditure of .£905,993, including .£423,993 for roads and bridges, and .£50,000 for the Exhibition, passed through all stages in the Assembly on the 22 nd The Premier announced in the Assembly that the Government were determined to proceed without any delay in carrying the railway into the city of Sydney. Efforts re being made by the Government of Victoria and New South Wales with a view to a settlement of the Border duties question. Liberal subscriptions are being made to the fund for the relief of the Glasgow Bank shareholders. Reports from the New Dromedary diggings are highly encouraging, good gold being discovered. The race between Trickett and Laycock for the Champion belt, for all comers, in outriggers, at the anniversary regatta held at Sydney on the 27th, is thus described by the "Sydney Morning Herald" s—" The start was very good. Trickett took the water first, and near Lawe's Battery led by half a length, but then unfortunately fouled a boat moored off the point. This mishap threw him behind three or four lengths, and Laycock maintained the lead he thas got till the finish. Rounding Fort Deniston, Trickett, who was evidently not in fit condition for rowing a race, insufficient training being the cause, seemed to be pulling away as if he had given up the contest, but he headed again for the flagship, which he rounded about a hundred yardß behind his opponent. Michael Rush, a well-known oarsman, has accepted E. C. Laycock's challenge to row a race for .£2OO aside. Melbourne, January 30. Some attempts at farewell demonstrations to the Governor have been attempted in one or two country districts, but were not attended with •success. . „ ~ ~ P ~ Of the tenders sent in for the erection ot the Exhibition Buildings, that of David Mitchell waß accepted for a little over £60,000. _ ' The Navigation Board held an inquiry into the collision between the Seagull and St. Kilda, and found that Captain Gray, of the Seagull, wa3 to blame for the accident. They suspended his certificate for twelve months. A criminal prosecution against him is to be initiated. Nothing further has been heard of the Kelly gang. The fourteen persons arrested under the Outlaw Act have been further remanded. A large number of police still continue to search without effect. John Thomas Bmith, the Victorian Whittmgton, is dangerously ill of cancer in the leg. The Rev John Eggleston, Wesleyan minister, died at Sandhurst suddenly. His widow only survived him three days. The Governor has forwarded an illustrated address to King George, of Tonga, for the rescue of the barque Kedah. The South Sea Islands trade is not in a satisfactory state, and matters are not improved by the frequent rumors current. , , The weather his been very hot, and rain is much wanted throughout the country. Nothing further has been heard of Martin Wieberg,°into whoso cscapo an official enquiry is to be hold.