AUSTRALIA.
[eeuteb’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, July 5. i Ned Kelly. j Nod Kelly lias boon brought up before the Resident Magistrate and remanded. Sugar. There is more business doing in sugars, | which are a shade higher. MELBOURNE, July 6, I The Elections. 1 e Numerous meetings are being held by t
candidates for Parliament throughout tho colony, and the forthcoming elections are absorbing public attention. Ned KellyIt is expected that Ned Kelly will appear on trial in a fortnight, COOKTOWN, July 5. Unpleasant Passengers. The Eastern and Australian mail steamer Bowen has arrived from Hong Kong and Singapore with the Torres Straits mails. She reports that on the upward voyage to Hong Kong, a piratical plot among tho Chinese passengers to seize the vessel was discovered, by a conversation being overheard. The passengers were mustered, and all hands being armed, twentyfive Chinese were arrested. Boxes containing loaded revolvers and packets of powder with fuses attached were discovered. On the arrival of the vessel at Hong Kong the prisoners were handed over to the authorities. The Bowen also brings news of the arrival of the New Ireland colonising steamship Genii at Singapore on June 7th. She had 3ft of water in her hold, and her engineers had deserted her.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1986, 6 July 1880, Page 2
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