AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2082, 26 October 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tbieqbaph,] [Par s.s. Eingarooma, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, October 19. The conversazione on Monday night attracted about thirteen thousand. An excellent concert was rendered. The building was brilliantly lighted. There were no complaints ■of thefts or disorders. About seventeen thousand invitations were issued. The Exhibition choir band occupied the orchestra. The save of the Exhibition was crowded with visitors. Many of the foreign and intercolonial courts were closed, including that of Jfew Zealand, Queensland and Germany. The picture gallery, too, was not accessible, but sufficient was left to provide anpla entertainjment for the visitors. The affair, altogether, was considered a great success. It is stated that Mr Munro, one of the commissioners, removed the barriers in front of the New Zealand court, declaring that all such obstructions were unlawful. The Queensland court had a notice that there was no admittance except during the hours of daylight. The Austrian band attracted an audience of ten thousand on Friday and their performance fave great satisfaction, most of the courts eing flocked with visitors. The attendance generally at the Exhibition is much more satisfactory than at first, principally owing to the musical attractions, which hud previously been much neglected. Tfao House will resume its sittings tomorrow, when Mr Patterson will submit the Railway Bill already agreed to by the Cabinet. It is intended to push on the Bill with all possible speed. The Treasurer has already half a million of the new loan in the Bank. Mr Berry is now busy preparing the estimates for the Budget statement to be made on the 21st, It is expected that the Opposition will challenge the Government, on the opening of Parliament, for re-instating Messrs Knagga and Parrel, whose appointments are gazetted. The “ Gazette ” notice of Thursday cancels the regulation disqualifying persons connected -with political societieties from holding Government appointments. The same “ Gazette ” contains the re-appointment of Messrs Farrell, Knaggs, and several other returning officers.

Mr Moleswcrth, on behalf of Kelly, on Friday moved the postponement of the trial till next sittings, on the ground that the prisoner had neither time nor means to prepare a defence. Mr Justice Barry replied that the -prisoner had bad an opportunity of seeing bis attorney twice a week. The Crown would provide any counsel he nominated, and he therefore refused the application. On the case being called on Monday an application was received on the above grounds, when the Court granted a postponement until the -28th.

Returns published show that eighty-five officials of the Customs have been dismissed, whose salaries ranged from a thousand -annually to a few shillings a week. Altogether a saving of about £20,050 has been effected.

SYDNEY, October 19.

A surveying party, consisting of Messrs Lament Young (Government geologist), H. W. Lloyd, Towers, and John Hopley left dßermagtti for Clyde on Saturday. A boat was picked up on the beach 40 miles north of Clyde on Monday morning, and the same afternoon it was reported that four bodies had been washed ashore. The gravest fears are entertained, as nothing has been beard since of the party. There are some fears of foul play, as bullets were found iu the boat’s thwarts, besides there being traces of pelting the boat with stones. Others suppose that Young went into the bush to search for minerals and got lost. Mr Binney, of the Minerals Department, started on Friday to thoroughly investigate the country and coast for the missing men. An active search is being made by others, although as yet unsuccessfully. A rumour is current among the miners of Bermagui that Sullivan, the New ■Zealand murderer, was among the party, but this is believed to be untrue. ADELAIDE, October 19. The Assembly have passed the loan estimates, amounting to £1,390,000, without amendment. A BUI was introduced to resume certain educational lands valued at £9OOO, which the lessees could not pay for. The measure met with considerable opposition and the debate was adjourned.