AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2070, 12 October 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tbikqbaph.]

A portion of the Australian nows, par s.s, To Anua, was given in our issue of yesterday. Tao following are additional items : MELBOURNE, October 6.

The attendance at the Hunt Club meeting on Saturday was very limited, and the fields very small, many hortes being scratched. The “Age” in a leader on Monday, says that a movement is afoot under Sir J. O’Snannassy to turn out the present Government, and mentions Mr Murray-Smith in the same connection. The “Age” urges the Liberals to resist the temptation, but fears that many Liberals now in the Assembly are not to be trusted. The above leader formed the subject of much comment in political circles, and is behoved to contain much that is true.

At a meeting of the Harbor Trust yesterday Mr Brady was instructed to interview I)r. Hector on the subject of the suitability of New Zealand timber for the purposes of the Trust.

The Chief Secretary is now in communication with the chiefs of the penal polico department with a view to further reductions. An influential syndicate of Calcutta merchants and others are taking active steps to introduce Indian tea into the colonies. Mr Seathorpe is now ' here with that object, and tea is freely dispensed in the Indian court daily to all visitors, H.M.S. Miranda left Plymouth for Australia at the end of August, and was instructed tojvisit Inaccessible Island, Tristan d’Acunha, to search for shipwrecked mariners. The “ Argus,” referring to the banquet in the Mansion House in honor of the cricketers, says that the news will bo read with pleasure throughout the colonies, that the cricketers have worked their way steadily to the front by good pluyjand good conduct. It concludes by staling that the warmth of feeling displayed at Leeds and London will be cordially reciprocated when the next team visits Australia.

The Australian Frozen Meat Company ship 250 tons of frozen meat per the Protos on the 31st. r i ho meat consists of 7000 carcases of sheep and a quantity of beef. The Peninsular and Oriental Company are building eight steamers, all exceeding 4000 tone, lb is intended to employ them principally in the Australian trade.

The diamond drill boro has been sunk at the Kileunda mine to a depth of 165 feet 6in. Three seams of coal of good quality have been struck, varying from three to twenty-four inches in thickness. At the Executive Council on Monday, it was asserted that the Payment of Members of Assembly Bill has received the Royal assent.

SYDNEY, October 6. The schooner Victory arrived on Sunday from the Solomon Islands, with Captain McLaughlin and seventeen of the Ohandernagore expedition. Two died on the voyage from fever and ague. The steamer Genii is still at Now Ireland, but no immigrants are on board, and the pronosed settlement has been abandoned. The Victory prosecuted an unsuccessful search on Bougainville and other islands for Captain Brodie and the missing crew of the schooner Ariel.