AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1781, 5 November 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. SYDNEY, November 5. The Exhibition. The art gallery is at last finished, and the whole collection is now visible to the public under the most favourable surroundings. Crowds of visitors aro arriving. Prison LabourParliament, by an overwhelming majority, has declined to utilize prison labour in the direction of carrying out public works. The new goldfield. Copeland i 3 proving an enormous goldfield. The Melbourne Races. Sir Hercules Robinson's horse Tocal won two important events easily Secundus, the cup favorite, was blocked, out of the race. * MELBOURNE, November 4. Mr Berry. Mr Berry has resumed tho office of Treasurer. The Totalisator. Several arrests of promoters using the totalisator wore mado last night. [Via Wellington.] MELBOURNE, October 28. The Kellys. It is reported that tho Kelly gang appeared in the vicinity of Wangaratta a few days ago. Nothing authentic has transpired. SYDNEY. SA Monster Nugget. A 440 z. nugget was picked up at Braidwood. ADELAIDE, October 28. Pleuropneumonia Spreading. Pleuropneumonia is said to be spreading in tho neighbourhood of Yorke'a Peninsula. The disease is assuming a serious aspect, and the Government are requested to appoint a local inspector at once.

The PhylloxeraPhylloxera has broken out at Fullarton, three miles fiom Adelaide. Statistics. The exDenditure last quarter was £443,784, against £393,190 for the same period last year. The revenue for the quarter was £408,689; in the correeponding quarter of lost year it wao £391,758. BRISBANE, October 28. A Tragedy on a Labour Ship. Intelligence from Norfolk Island via Noumen, says that information had reached there of a tragedy aboard the Mary Anderson, a labor vessel, on her last cruise. One of the Native laborers aboard was seized with a fit of madnees, took an American axe, and cut off the heads of two comrades, and fearfully wounded others who ondeavorod to secure him. Secured lie would not be, and fought to the death. Full particulars of the affair have not yet come out.