AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1951, 26 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Hr Telegraph.] (Via Russell.] NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, May 21. Considerable dissuasion ensued yesterday in the Council on the Sill to appropriate church and school lands exclusively for educational purposes. The objection was made that many of the Anglican clergy depended on the proportion of revenue that was derived from these lands for decent stipends. The debate was adjourned. In the Assembly Mr Brown, on the recommittal of the Electoral Bill, introduced a clause requiring candidates to make a money order deposit, but he consented to modify his original proposition by the substitution of £4O for £SO. After an acrimonious debate this was carried by 19 to 18. The Assembly has voted £385,379 as a temporary supply. The attempt to elicit a statement of the financial policy was successfully resisted by the Treasurer. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, May 20. It is said that the police have surrounded the Kellys in an inaccessible position near King River, but that a hundred armed men could not get at them. The only way is to starve them out. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADE LAIDE, May 20. The telephone system is to be introduced into the colony. The receipts of the land sales in April were £82,000. “ Gazette ” returns show that over 100 Chinese died in the Northern Territory in three months, on whom no inquests were held.