AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2037, 3 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CBv Teiegbaph.] [Per s.s. Hero, at Aueiland.] NEW SOUTH WALES. The " Daily Telegraph " and the " Evening News " continue to comment freely on Judge Windeyer's summings up in connection with the libel cases in which these journals were respectively mulcted in damages, and relative to the decision of the full Court to bring the proprietors of the " E eening News " before them to answer for the alleged contempt. The country press has also noticed the affair, and a public meeting has passed a resolution adverse to the action of the judges. It is supposed that a dreadful crime hai been committed near InverselL A man reported to the police that a selector, named Mullarly, had been accidentally burned to death. The police's suspicion was excited, and they procured an inquest. The skull shows marks of having been hacked by a sharp instrument. The Bulli miners are on a strike. Endeavours for an arrangement are proceeding. At Temora a new rush occurred at Oootamundra road. Tho wash dirt is stated to lojk better than that from any other part of the field. Speculators have already secured frontages for two miles, anticipatirg tho formation of a township. The Treasurer haviDg decided to charge wharfage rates for the public wharves at Newcastle, a strong opposition has beec aroused among tho local shippers, and an influential deputation interviewed the Minister, who stated that he had no power tc interfere in the operation of the law. The official report from the warden of the Temora states that it is impossible at the present time to form a reliable opinion. Fifty claims may be reckoned payable. The most that can be said for the field is that probably in the course of lime it will prove extensive and profitable. He advises miners intending to start for it to wait till something more definite is known. TICTOEIA. The Parliamentary session opens on the 31st. The budget statement is not to be made till the following week. It is likely there will be an adjournment for a fortnight or a month for the Exhibition. Mr Berry admits that the Opposition is not despicable in point of numbers, and that it is ably led. To secure success there must be loyalty and discipline. He said he is not an advocate of revolutionary expedients, but the Liberal party would right matters surely but slowly. The payment of members of both Houses, on the old basis, will be amongst the firßt of the Government Bills introduced. QUEENSLAND. The Opposition have returned stone walling the proposed mail contract. It is understood it is intended to obstruct till the expiration of the time fixed for the ratification of the contract. The Government decline to allow themselves to bo worn out by continuous sittings, and intend to adjourn the House for a week. The Premier on the 27th received a cablegram from tho agents of the British. India Company, stating that they have contracted for the new steamers subject to the ratification of tl e cen!rac< with the Queensland Government, and asking whether it would be safe to proceed to build the vessels. SOUTH AUSIKALIA. Mr Bray gave notice in the Assembly that, on the motion for going into committee of supply, he would move that the House declines to proceed with the Estimates until the Government have submitted proposals for the better adjustment of the expenditure and revenue. The Government treated this as a no-confidence motion and adjourned the House to the following day. On the 26ih the motion was debated and negatived.