AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2038, 4 September 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tbeegeaph.] The greater part of the Australian news, per s.s. Hero, were given in our yesterday’s issue. The following are additional items ; MELBOURNE, August 28. Mr Lansell, a rich reefer, of Sandhurst, has given £IOOO to the Bendigo Hospital, and £IOOO to the Hospital for Incurables. The steamer Suva, trom Fiji, has been placed in quarantine with measles on board. At a meeting of the Victorian Cabinet the case of Hanson, under sentence of death, was considered, and the sentence commuted to ten years.

The Rev. Father Kraugwitter, one of the earliest Catholic missionaries to Victoria and South Australia, is dead.

The Victorian Exhibition Commission has granted an extra space to Austria and Germany. New annexes are being erected, at a cost of £2OOO.

It is said that Sir John O’Shanassy will take an early opportunity of moving for a Royal Commission on Education in Victoria.

The Government has some ground for believing that the sovereigns found at Sandridge belonged to a seaman of the Arabia, who is known to have planted about 200 in the year 1852. Ho had great distrust of the Banks. The Victorian Minister of Customs has called for a report from the shipping master, and when it is received various grievances of the seamen will be dealt with. Alderman Mowbray and Councillor Gaston are mentioned as .likely candidates for the Mayoralty of Melbourne. Measles are raging in some of the suburbs. The programme of the special race meeting for September 18th has been issued. It includes a Hurdle Bscs with 250 sovs added, distance two miles; Two-year-old Stakes, half a mile ; Robinson Stakes of 5 sovs, with 250 sovs added, Leger distance; Welter Plate of a mile and a quarter, with 100 sovs added money; Steeplechase Handicap of 3 sovs, with 200 sovs added ; Farewell Handicap of 3 sovs, with 200 sovs added, for three-year-olds and upwards, distance one mile and a quarter. The Governor will open the International Exhibition at 11 a.m. on October Ist, and Commodore Wilson has promised that all the British men-of-war on that station shall rendezvous in Hobson’s Bay. Tho Governor visited tho Exhibition, and was received by the president and commission. Ho inspected the whole of tho building and arrangements, with which he expressed much satisfaction. Everything io now getting into a forward state. BRISB ANE, August 28. Many persons are leaving Brisbane for tho new tin mines near Gladstone. A large number of selections have boon taken up during the last few days, and water is abundant. Large quantities of tin continue to arrive at Cooktown. Twenty-six tons were shipped by the Llewellyn, and forty tons by the Alexander. A proclamation has been issued offering a bonus of £SOOO for the production of, 5000 tons of marketable iron from Queensland ores.

ADELAIDE, August 28. In the Assembly, the Treasurer said that a million and a-half of loan money was on deposit in London at 2J- per cent. The Treasurer also said, in reply to a question, that the brokerage paid on the last loan was onequarter per cent. The Government have made arrangements for Professor Pepper to deliver lectures to the school children and teachers.

It is the intention of the Chief Secretary to address a despatch to the Government of Canada, asking if any arrangements can be made to admit our wines into that country at lower rates of duty than those at present in force, which are almost prohibitory. Owing to correspondence which has taken place with the Government of Fiji, the Cabinet have decided to introduce a Bill into Parliament to provide for the enforcement of judgments of the Supreme Court of Fiji in the Supreme Court of South Australia. A company is about to be started to produce petroleum oil in the vicinity of Coorong.