AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1937, 10 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] [Via Bluff.] Victoria. MELBOURNE, May 4. Mr J. M. Grant has issued a circular announcing his candidacy for the speakership. There are now three candidates, viz.—Messrs Grant, Laler, and MacMahon. The latter is the Government nominee. The business of the Judicature Commission is proceeding. A Bill wi.l soon be drafted on the lines followed by the Commission. It is stated that the J udicature Bill, for which Sir Bryan U’Loghlan ordered .£4(13 to bo paid to Mr MacDonnell for drafting, cannot be found. It appears that tho type has been used by the < Government printer. Of the large deficiency for tho current year i the most serious falling off is in the revenue of i the land department. i There have been no further cases of measles 1 for some days past, but diphtheria continues i spreading in the country districts. There appears | ] littlodoubt but that measles were introduced into , i the colony from the Kent, whose passengers i

I were landed without their effects being fumigated. A sectional committee of the Social Science Congress is holding sittings and arranging proceedings for a congress during the Exhibition. The recent decision of the Exhibition Commissioners to call for tenders for chairs, excluding Chinese labor from competing, is causing mneb discussion in the press. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on the 29ih, Mr John Benn, president, delivered an exhaustive address on commercial topica. He looked forward hopefully to the business prospects of the coming year. Mr B. J. Jeffrey, of Sloans Company, succeeds Mr Benu as president. NEW SOUTH WALES. The Colonial Secretary hag received a telegram from London, giving the following additional names of the English Ministry:—Lord Chamberlain, Farl Kenmnra ; Lord Steward, Earl Sydney; Master of the Buckhounds, the Earl of Cork; Master of the Horse, the Duke of Westminster ; Under Secretary for India, the Marquis of Lansdowr.e. Pour other counsel have given an opinion that Mr Slattery, prothonotary, was an officer of the Supreme Court only, not of the Government, Consequently his dismissal is illegal. The Queen of the South, from Adelaide, encountered the ship Alfcair from Melbourne to Dunedin on the 26th nit. Ihe Altaic had lost her cempasa in a gale, and had to get her bearings from the Queen of tbo South The barque Lady Emma, 128 tons, went ashore on the Sydney Heads on Friday night. The master was drowned. The vessel was insured for £550 in the Union Company of New Zealand. A difficulty has arisen between the captain and the men of the Chandernagore. The police were unable to interfere, the consuls refusing to recognise the Chandernagore. Ultimately the men assumed a threatening attHnde, and the mate was obliged to be escorted aboard. A schooner, which has arrived, reports sighting the steamer Port Breton about 280 miles from New Ireland, with 700 foreign immigrants for settlement. The owners in the Waratah district show a disposition to submit their dispute to arbitration. The men of Waratah have temporary resumed work, having accepted the managers’ terms. The Bank of New South Wales has declared a dividend at the rate of 17 per cent.: £IO,OOO is added to the reserve fund. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Lady Jarvis is suffering from indisposition. Burnett is very successful in the temperance crusade. At a monster meeting on Saturday in the Town Hall, rir H. T. Ayers presiding, the speakers included Dean Russel. Secretary Morgan presides at the next meeting. The Exhibition Commissioners have asked for five thousand pounds from the Government for the representation of the colony in Melbourne. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The Legislative Council will probably meet on July 3rd. Mr Onslow, Attorney-General of Honduras, has been appointed Attorney-General of West Australia. TASMANIA. The Fdith May, barquentine, from Lyttelton to Adelaide, has put in to Hazard’s Bay through stress of weather. QUEENSLAND. A Government Board is about to be appointed to carry out experiments connected with rust in wheat, for eradicating which a reward is offered. There are many competitors for the prize.