LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1920, 20 April 1880, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Summary per Wakatipu.] SYDNEY. April 14. Mr G. R. Dehbs, the defendant in Shepherd v. Dehbs, baa handed his estate to trustees for the benefit of bis creditors. The Legislative Cour c l finally passed the Education Bill yesterday night, after recommittal. For the recent extraordinary assault on a bailiff, killing his horse, and assaulting the landlady who sheltered him, at Alburnia, James Carey was sentenced to seven (?) years, and Owen Carey to three years. Mining affairs at Newcastle were the subject of a monster meeting to-day. The result is unascertained. The Governor gave his first ball yesterday night. The Exhibition begins to look very bare, in conscquor.ee of the closing of several courts. VICTORIA. The foundation stone of St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral was laid yesterday by the Governor. Mr \V. J. Clarke gave a thousand pounds, and Messrs. Armitage and Payne five hundred each. The New South Wales and Victorian racing crew were entertained by the Mayer. The Inspector o? Bailiffs, who was dismissed by the Berry Government, has been re-instated. A deputation of exhibition commissioners has represented to the Government that the gross expenses have boon -£320,000, of which it is expected that there will be recouped .£70,000. Mr Service sail that the Government felt bound to pull tbo committee through, and consented ta the full amount asked for. The Cabinet have resolved to support Mr Cooper’s candidature for the chairmanship of committees against Mr Gannson. jjiadOe. Patti was serenaded yesterday night. QUEENSLAND. At Maekay, the pilot Langford was drowned by the boat capsizing. Two men have been arrested at Tvileoy on the charge of seriously injuring a black gin by exploding a tin of gunpowder in a but. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Eight hundred pound* have been raised towards the relief of the sufferers by the Silesian famine. A “Herald’s” special. dated London, April 12, states that the Indian Government will contribute £ 10,000 towards a project for placing teas on the Australian market.