AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1887, 11 March 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW SOUIH WALES. [Per s.b. Albion, via HokiHka.] The events for the A.J.C. Autumn meeting have filled well, there being 103 nomination! in excess of last year. The Legislative Council has passed the Land Act Amendment Bill through committee. A new Bill will be introduced enabling exhibitors at the Exhibition to retain their goods at the Garden Palace till Ap-il 20th. Messrs Stewart, Ar.slow, LolJner, GkirdeD, Thomson, and Simpson, have been selected to row in the intercolonial boat' ace. QUEENSLAND. The Executive have resolved to rescind the regulations paying volunteers 7s per day during encampments. The Banks have reduced the rates of inerest on fixed deposits by 1 per cent. With reference to the loss of the barque Meteor off Solomon group, the captain report! that he arrived at Sura on January 16th. While taking in cargo a gale sprang up, accompanied with seas. The cables parted on January 20th, and the vessel drove ashore on a ledge of rock?, and broke up almost immediately. Captain Callaghan swam ashore with a line, by which a hawser was got ashore, and the whole of the crew rescued. The Natives were very kind, and brought the crew yams evening and morning, upon which they lived for fifteen days. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Governor Rjbinson is expected to arriveearly in April. The schooner Citadel, from Semaphore, wheat-laden, sprang a leak, seven days after leaving, while running before a heavy sea. She made much water, and has arrived at Fremantle for repairs. TASMANIA. The Hon. F. Miners has been elected President of the Legislative Council. The Hon. Charles Meredith, Police Magistrate at Launceston, and for many years a prominent politician, is dead. The Council has reduced the amount o£ the proposed loans to £250,000.