AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1667, 24 June 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[eeutbe’s telegrams]

SYDNEY, Juno 24.

News received from Foo Chow reports that the steamer Brisbane had sailed from there for Sydney with the first cargo of new season tea on the 18th Juno.

A commercial traveller was stuck up by two bushrangers, near Coonambo, and robbed of £BO cash and £ISOO worth of jewellery.

MELBOURNE, June 23,

The petition of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank for the winding up of the Provincial and Suburban Bank was dismissed with costs.

[Via Auckland.] SYDNEY, June 19. Sailed—Clifton, barque, for Port Chalmers, via Newcastle.

The debate on the Lind B : ’l is proceeding in the Legislative Counc ; '. The Executive have commuted the sentences on George Peckham and John Lewis, convicted of the murder of the wife of the first named prisoner, to fourteen years’ penal servitude.

Captain Waterhouse, the master of the steamer Prince of Wales, has been fined £lO for a broach of the marine regulations, by allowing Lis steamer to follow the intercolonial boat race.

Two men at Sydney were fined la each and costs, under an Act of Charles 11., for clipping a horse on Sunday. The cutter Basilisk has been wrecked off Oronella Reach. No lives were lost.

QUEENSLAND, June 19

Father Soortcrin, who was stabbed by McGoldrick, is recovering. The assailant was committed for trial.

A vote of want of confidence in the financial policy of the Government has been negatived by twenty-three to twenty. MELBOURNE, June 19.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the Kelly sympathisers who have purchased arms and ammunition in Melbourne for the Kellys. Parliament meets about the 15lh of Julv. ADELAIDE, June 19.

The Commissioner of Public Works, in reply to a deputation promised to endeavor to give to locel iron-masters the priority in tenders.

A woman died from fright by tin-kettling on the night of her marriage. A verdict of manslaughter was brought against the tinkettlera.