AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1939, 12 May 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Tblbgbaph.] The greater part of the Australian nows per a.s. To Anau, via Auckland, was given in omssuo of yesterday. The following are tho ren aining items : VICTORIA. An important deputation of tho medical association waited upon Mr Ramsay for the purpose of submitting their views regarding the management of the Lunatic Asylum, with the object of supporting a memorial previously sub /fitted on the subject. They proposed that the appointm nt of officials should be made nonpolitical. That the institution should be extended so as to afford patients sufficient room, and lha management should bo placed under a Board consisting of legal, lay and medical men. Mr Ramsay promised to investigate the matter, and give a reply at an early date. At tho general meeting of the National Bank a dividend of 121 per cent, was declared. Conway, a policeman, who took strychnine owing to domestic infelicity, has die 1 from the effect? of tho poison. Mr Kent, well known in football circles sailed in tho Sorato for London for the purpose of arranging several matches between Intercolonial and English players ; ten of the best Victorian players have signified their willingness, and are going to Sydney and Adelaide. QUEENSLAND. New diggings are reported near Mount Tax Combes. Tin has boon discovered at Tale River. The prospectors say that two men can sluice three to four tons weekly, tho ore, averaging 75 per cent, of tin. Two men who barbarously injured a black gin by exploding powder under tier, have been committed for trial. Healy. the schoolmaster, charged wi‘,h arson, was acquitted. The proposed jetty scheme at Port Douglas has been abandoned. The estimated cost was £50,000. The Minister for Public Works has promised to use the diamond drill on the Hodginson goldfield. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. At the annual meeting of the Commercial Bank, the balance-sheet showed a profit of 15 per cent. At the annual meeting of the Presbytery, the Rev. W. Patton presided The want of greater unity amongst the Presbyterian Churches was deplored. The necessity of infusing activity into tho Evangelists’ work was also urged.