AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2080, 23 October 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[eeutee’s teleqeams.] MELBOURNE, October 22. The Strauss BandIt is stated that the celebrated Strauss band will very shortly visit New Zealand. A Handsome Present. The German Commissioner to the International Exhibition has presented New Zealand with two groups of statuary. MELBOURNE, October 23. Shipping. Arrived, yesterday—The Union Company’s s,s. Rotorua, from the Bluff. Nepotism.

Mr Benjamin Berry has been reinstated to the position in tbo civil service from which he was removed by the Service Ministry. Racing.

Pan Slavs has been scratched for the Cup.

SYDNEY, October 22, The Markets.

Hennessy’s brandy, case, 35h 9d to 365; kerosene, Diamond, per gallon, Is 7jd; Devos’s, Is Bd. There is no wheat in the market. New Zealand oats. Is lOd to 2s.

SYDNEY, October 23, Shipping.

Arrived —Pacific Mail steamship Zea, landia, from Auckland.

Judge Meymott.

The commission of enquiry which was appointed some time ago to examine into the charges against District Court Judge Meymott has brought up its report, and now requires Judge Meymott to show cause against his removal from his position.

BRISBANE, October 23. Raising the Wind.

A Bill has been introduced by the Government in Parliament to provide for the issue of Treasury bonds. The Trans-Uontinental Railway.

An excellent road has been formed to Port Parker, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, together with a splendid site for a township at the terminus of the proposed railway.