AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1965, 11 June 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] The greater part of the Australian news was given in our issue of yesterday. The following are a few additional items : ' NEW SOUTH WALES. Matters at Newcastle continue disturbed. Several collieries are engaging laborers to replace the miners on strike, and great irritation is resulting. Mr Layard, formerly member for the district, endeavoring to mediate, but the men are preparing for a protracted struggle. At ten o’clock on the night of June 3rd the manager of the Commercial Bank at Q.uirindi was working late, and going to the stable to feed his horses, he was la'led up by throe masked robbers with revolvers. Contrary to rule, he had the check key of the safe, which should have been nightly handed to the Sergeant of Police. Hb managed to drop it while being conveyed to the Bank, and protended that he had not got it. Ultimately ho was intimidated and the safe robbed. The robbers having drunk a bottle of whiskey became [violent, and the manager’s wife and sister were bailed up. £485 were [taken, half in gold, but they overlooked £2OO in notes. They then departed about one o’clock in the morning. The township police and the assistant clerk were absent on duty. The schooner Avooa, from Solomon Islands, arrived at Sydney on June 2nd. She brought a young gentleman who belonged to the party at New Ireland sent by the Marquis de Buys in the Chandernagore. He states he sailed from Flushing on September 14th. There were 100 men on board. They had a beautiful passage to Linglin Island, in the South Sea. In accordance with previous arrangement the men, under command of Mr Nottinger, were allowed I o settle on the island, where the natives were most friendly. They had provisions for three months when they landed, but seven more were landed unprovided for, and it is feared that they are suffering from want, as they have been unvisited since the Chandernagore proceeded to New Ireland, where the other immigrants were landed in two detachments, under Mr McLaughlin and M. D. La Crox, at different places. Fever and ague, with other diseases peculiar to this island, broke out. The men worked industriously, but six days after landing only three were capable of exertion, and no medicine or physical comforts were obtainable. The natives informed the immigrants that there were plenty of whites on the Duke of York Island, and after several attempts a boat, while endeavoring to reach that island, was picked up by the Tipple, a trading steamer, VICTORIA. The debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill was commenced on June Ist by Mr Berry and still continues. Mr Berry contended that it would confer greater power than ever on the Legislative Council, which would enable them to do as they pleased. If the Bill passed, there would bo no land tax, property or income tax, but the revenue would be derived from taxation on tho necessaries of life. The police raid after the Kellys has again entirely failed. It is stated that local sympathy is with them and the residents give them warnings. It is probable that the Payment of Members Bill will be stone-walled unless the Harbor Trust Bill is first considered, with a view of averting the stoppage of the works and a deprivation of employment. Sir Samuel Wilson has received a letter from the Duke of Manchester stating thdt he intends visiting the Melbourne Exhibition with his youngest daughter. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The address in reply was moved by Mr Bonn cell, who advocated the abandonment of Port Darwin, and the establishment of the capital of the northern territory at tho head of the. Roper river. The Treasurer stated that the Government would not consent to an increase of the number of members in the Assembly unless the Constitution is amended at the same time.