AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1573, 5 March 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

Melbourne, March 4. Tne Victorian Government, following the example of New South Wales, is engaging Queensland black trackers to hunt the Kellys.

[Via Auckland.] Brisbane, February 27. At a meeting of the creditors of Burns and Eannery, of Brisbane, a statement prepared by the firm showed liabil ties .£40,000, and assets equal to twenty shillings in the pound. £20,000 is due to European creditors, £IO,OOO to firms and bankers, £SOOO to local creditors. It was decided to wind up the estate in insolvency. Melbourne, February 27. At the sale of Wongon stud Tim Whiffler bi’ought the highest price, namely, £4OO. Eight Kelly sympathisers were remanded to Beech worth.

Byass, secretary to the Protestant Alliance, whose clothes were found on the beach at Cneltenham, has been arrested and charged as a defaulter., He was hiding in South Gippsland bush. Adelaide, February 27. The Registrar calculates from information obtained from all parts of the colony, that tho average result of the harvest is a slight fraction over seven bushels per acre, and the total ninetyone million bushels, leaving a surplus of 1,701,000 tons for export. Newspapers in all parts of Victoria condemn the late action of Sir B. G’Loghlin, which is denominated “ gagging the press ” The quarterly abstract stows the estimated population at the end of the year at 478,311 males, 401,075 femaies, total 879,3«7, being an increase since the same date of 1877 of 10,570 males, and 8729 females. The finance committee of the City Council of Adelaide intend to recommend the lighting of the city with kerosene. Two armed men stuck up McMillan’s store at Eubbo One shot was fired, but no one was wounded. They robbed the storekeeper of £3.