AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1644, 28 May 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

CABLE NEWS.

[special to globe.] SYDNEY, May 27. The New South Wales raon are almost certain to bo winners of the boat race. All the bushrangers in recent raids have been captured. The Sydney men defeated the Victorians in chess by two games. There is a good market for New Zealand potatoes, which we quote at £8 to £9. SYDNEY, May 27. Tho members of the Cricket Association aro obtaining signatures to a requisition, calling a meeting to consider what steps should be taken in referenco to Lord Harris' letter about the cricket row at Sydney, and the comments of the Englis press. MELBOURNE, May 27. By the judgment in the Ballarat water works case £27,707 is awarded to tho plaintiffs. A Government inquiry re the Provincial Bank is probable. Professor Pepper will mako a tour through the colonies shortly. Sailed —Ringarooma. [ Via Auckland.] SYDNEY, May 22. In the Council Mr Roberts moved that the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill be discharged from the order paper. The motion was agreed to. Mr Cameron called attention to the fact that the immigration scheme had become a mere traffic in human beings, and that the persons introduced were only fit for a metropolitan life. At the Central Criminal Court attention was drawn to the fact that the French Government are about to release from 500 to 600 more convicts from New Caledonia. MELBOURNE, May 22. The detectives and police who arrested Weiberg are to be promoted. The Government propose to give power to local bodies to employ rates and endowments for the construction of local lines. Four men were killed in a mine by a cage falling a distance of 250 ft. The Queensland Q-overnment have purchased a schooner from the Imperial Government for the coast islands, which are about to be annexed to the Queensland territory. Rich finds are reported at Gympie.