AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2030, 26 August 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tho following arc items from the 'Wellington papers : SYDNEY, August 19. It is understood that the Government have formally notified to the Bank that it is intended to make a further withdrawal of £200,000. Money beiog plentiful, this will cause no inconvenience. Parliament has been further prorogued to tho 20th of September, there will, consequently, bo no session prior to dissolution. Candidates are presenting themselves in numerous constituencies, preparatory to the general election. An impudent and mysterious robbery of gold, in transit from the Queensland National Bank at Cooktown, per steamer Victoria, the City Bank, Sydney, was discovered on arrival here of the vessel. Five boxes, contained about 5000 ounces, and one of these believed to contain about 12S ounces’ was noticed to be very light, and was opened with special attention, in the presence of witnesses, by the manager of the City Bank, and found to contain only scraps of paper. Investigation leads to the belief that an empty box was substituted for the full one between the bank and tho ship at Cooktown. At a compliment ary dinner to Mr Manson, the United States Commissioner to the Exhibition, Alderman Davis stated that property in Sydney would probably be taxed two shillings in the pound. The asphalte paving laid experimentally on one section in George street, cost over £SOOO, tho freight of the blocks alone coming to £I6OO. The blocks are chipping a little, bat they appear likely to endure. The reporter of the “ Herald ” has been inspecting the Metropolitan suburban .dairies and exposes disgusting unwholesome arrangements. It is intended to construct an Arcade from George to Pitt streets, occupying the sites of tho Victoria Theatre recently burned. Referring to tho theft of the gold from Cooktown, people say they remarked at the time of shipment that the box was much lighter than others. The wharf at Cooktown is about a third of a mile from the bank, and the route running along the main street. The Customhouse is a wooden shed on the wharf. The box sent bore three National Bank seals, but the box received had no Bank eeals, but two without impression and one Customhouse stamp, none of the other gold boxes had the Customs’ seal. MELBOURNE, August 19. On the night preceding the election Mr Berry addressed a meeting at Geelong, and accused ids opponent (Andrews) of appealing to religious intolerance, and said he sought only to work with thejEnglish, Irish, Scotch- — one great Liberal party. He complained of the bit terness of opposition, amounting to persecution, on account of his being a representative of the dignity rights of labor. The elections were conducted very quietly, and Ministers were fairly successful, although polling close. The Catholic vote was very ineffectual. In Geelong the Catholic vote scarcely amounted to 1000, while at Pitzroy Vale improved his position. Williams polled better at Eaglehawk than last time. The following are the result: —Geelong : Berry, 1577 : Andrews, 1527. Eitzroy : Vale, 1799 ; Blackett, 1731. Creswiok ; Richardson, 2566; O’Neill, 1915. Mandarang :;Wil!iame, 2153 ; Moore, 2259.