AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1619, 29 April 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Melbourne, April 28, Mr Berry telegraphs that he has had a final interview with Lord Beaconsfield and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, and obtained the decision of the Cabinet. The Imperial Government decline to legislate at the present juncture, but propose that Mr Berry should submit the issue to the country. If that fails, the arrangement is that the Home Government will invite Parliament to amend the constitution. The Treasury consented to reduce the Imperial share of postege to 2d. Mr Berry proposes to accept the P. and O. Co.’s tender. The Cabinet has authorised Mr Berry to sign the contract. The Embassy returns on tho 7th. [Via Wellington.] Sydney, April 22. The Nineveh left London on the 10th with 400 immigrants for Sydney. At Newcastle an extended sitting of the Miners’ Conference was held. A motion being carried that the Lambton Lodge be expelled from the Miners’ Association of the Hunter river district. At the same meeting it was agreed that the Waratah vend be increased by 26,01)0 tons, making in all 90,000. At Wentworth a melancholy and fatal accident occurred in the drowning of John Sharp, tho beat swimmer in the neighborhood. The deceased swam on horseback at the Ana, a branch of the Murray, for a swan, but his horse becoming entangled in weeds threw him. His friends, who ho told five minutes before drowning that he was all right, wore unable to assist him, aad getting tho swan, and resting on it for half an hour, ho sank. During the floods of 1870, deceased carried the mails fortyfire miles per day, frequently having to swim his horse miles through flooded country, and it was not an uncommon occurrence for him, on his horse drowning, to hike tho mails and swim ashore. He was then thirteen years of age. Melbourne, April 22. Mr E. Monk, of Wombat, received another threatening letter signed “ another Kelly sympathiser at large.” Typhoid fever prevails in Jolimont. It is said that tho contagion is being spread by a milkman in supplying his customers. It is stated that some of tho oft remanded Kelly sympathisers at Boechworth have entered an action against the remanding magistrate. Tho yield of tho Band and Albion Consols for tho week, IGloz. from i7fl tons stone, caused great excitement at Ballarat. The Minister of Railways, at a banquet given in his honor at Trentham, took great credit to himself for his administration of the Railway Department, and justified the black Wednesday proceedings as part of tho policy of the Government, The Eastern Market building is rapidly approaching completion. Adelaide, April 22. The Government has decided to discontinue {receiving nominations for free passages to immi-

grants till further notice. At prese t 4000 {•e.-tificfttea for passages are outstanding. The Hon. C. B. Young left for England; It is,reported that a telegram Ita been received from London advising the intention of the Rev-CJ. H. Spurgeon to, visit Australia. t The Chamber of Manufactures lesolved to interview the Government and ask them to sink an artesian well near Adelaide, with the view of getting a supply of water. At Perth a company is in course of formation for the purpose of purchasing a 300-tcn steamer for running between Frcemantle and Cossack. The major part of tbo capital has been subscribed.

Bishop Parry is married to Mrs Alexander,