AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1938, 11 May 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph".] The greater part of the news per a s. Rotonra was given yesterday. The following are additional items : VICTORIA. The new Melbourne Exchange will be formally opened on May 10th by Mr Service, the Premier. A dividend of 5a in the £ in the estate of the Provincial and Suburban Bank is now payable. A further sum of .£2OOO was remitted for the Irish Relief Fund on April 29th. The total Victorian subscriptions now am sunt to ■£39,000. Mr Symo made an application to the Chief Justice on April 29tb, ttat the action for libel brought by Mr Wilson, of St. Albans, against him should come off in Melbourne instead of Geelong. The application was opposed, and the Chief Justice decided teat tho case should bo trif d in Geelong. Tho rates for telegraphing Press massages between Victoria, South Australia, and Now South Wales have been reduced to 3s per 100 words. Mr Service, at a complimentary banquet in Geelong to the Conservative candidates, referred to tho largo cost of unclassified civil servants, entailing an expenditure of over a million. He again expressed confidence in the Reform Bill becoming law within three months. The Crown law officers have been instructed to prosecute Alderman Gatehouse, his son, and others for attempting to burn down the trigonometrical beacon at Mount Macedon. Rigorous precautions continue to he taken to prevent the spread of measles and diphtheria, but fresh cases are daily reported in different parts. John Oxford, who is believed to bo sane, and who formerly shot at the Queen and was confined as a lunatic, has bean convicted of larceny and charged as a vagrant. . P. W. Wills, formerly well known as a Victorian cricketer, committed suicide whilst of unsound mind, caused through excessive drinking. Air P. Strode, a very old Vic'.oriun colonist and formerly proprietor of the “ Port Phillip Gazette,” is dead, aged 68. ) NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr John Robertson has been gazetted member of the Public Instruction Department, and Mr Plunkett Under-Seeretary. The report of the Council on education shows the amount of expenditure for the last year to have been -£358,000, whereof .£140,000 were for buildings, ,£ll4 000 for salaries and school fees. It is intended to hold a census of the colony of Kew South Wales next year. Tho A.S.N. Company gave a dinner to Mr J. B. Thurston, of Fiji, ou April 29th. Several members of tho Ministry ware present, and Sir H. Parkes, in a speech, said that it was probable that the company would run steamers direct to Europe before long. In reference to tho dispute between the captain and crew of the Chandernagore, a prolonged discussion took place between the consuls. The captain produced the articles which the men had signed binding them to remain in the ship for two years. The men called in made serious charges, and declared that they had been deceived when they shipped. Finally the captain offered, and the men agreed to accept, one-third of the amount due, and to bo discharged at Sydney. The Marine Board hold an enquiry into the less of tho Lady Emma. The evidence showed that the captain was drunk and asleep in the cabin, and that tho mate had no certificate. Tho Marine Board having no jurisdiction tho enquiry closed.