LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1998, 20 July 1880, Page 2

LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By TbIEGEAPH.] [Per City o£ New York.] VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, July 15. There are not many notable persons among the rejected at the elections. Mr Ooppin for Collingwood, Mr William Gaunson for East Melbourne, and Dr Knaggs for West Melbourne (where ha was formerly returning officer and was displaced by the Service Government on suspicion of partiality) are about all the known names. All the Orient steamers are to bo fitted with electric light signals. The racer South Hamilton has been sold for 403 guineas. Ned Kelly has sufficiently recovered to appear at the Police Court on Monday next. The elections were quietly conducted, but the interest was never more intense. The “ Argus” office prepared for an illumination, anticipating a Ministerial victory. In Melbourne immense crowds occupied the streets fronting the “ Argus” and “ Age” offices, and received the successive announcements with cheers or groans. The people in the crowd appeared to be mainly in favour of the Berry party. Before the polling commenced the Ministry had a start of eight, returned unopposed, but as the returns came in the hopes of their party received a rapid succession of blows. NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, July 15. At the sale of Gibson and Son’s stud rams, the animals fetched from thirty to a hundred and fifty-five guineas. Good accounts are received from the Temora rush. The auriferous tracts are believed to be ample for thousands more than are on the ground. Robert Uther, a hatter, of Sydney, died on the 10th, aged ninety. Ho was one of those who signed, in 1808, a paper addressed to Major Johnstone, requesting him to depose Governor Bligh. At the sale of Mr Kermode’s stud merinos one ram fetched £IOO ; the average was about £2O. QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, July 15. Mr Bear, the new Attorney-General, took his seat yesterday. Telephonic communication has been established between two business establishments belonging to Quinlan, Grey and Co., of Brisbane, the two points being two miles apart. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, July 14. The Assembly has resolved to introduce Bills disposing with the necessity of persons intending marriage residing seven days previously in the district where the ceremony is performed ; also to prohibit the importation of Tandstuoker matches. PORT DARWIN, July 14. The gold stolen from Southport has been recovered, and Trooper Ferguson arrested for the robbery. He was active in seeking the criminal, and discovered the wrappers in a Chinaman’s garden four hundred yards distant from the office. He arrested the four Chinamen and the Post Office cook, and while escorting them to Palmerston another trooper, suspecting him, searched his box and found the gold.