AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2089, 3 November 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

5 [By Thmqbath.] ’ fPer s.s. Te Anau, at EueseLL.j E A portion of the Australian news, per s.s Te Auau, was given in our yesterday’s issue , The following are additional items: — MELBOURNE, October 28. i At the half-yearly meeting of the Oolonia i Bank, the report and balance-sheet, with i dividend of 6 per cent, was adopted. Th( Hon. W. J. Clarke presided. George Tallentine, well-known in betting circles, is dead. A petition signed by 250 unemployed hai been presented to the Minister for Works They complain that no work is available a( Lanoefield, and that they tried to find work from the farmers, but the crops were not sufficiently advanced to harvest. They asked that works should be inaugurated in order to give them employment. Two churches in Carlton were broken info) on Saturday night, and a few shillings in money and some silver was taken. There are no competitors for the £IOO premium offered by the Harbor Trust for the best scheme for raising silt. The National Bank has declared a dividend of 12£ per cent., and added £SOOO to the reserve fund, besides carrying forward £5500. The City Council intend to petition Parliament against the telephonic communication Bill, as the pillars erected disfigure the streets, and the company pays no rates. Iu anticipation of tariff charges, £33,527 was paid in duties at the Custom House on Tuesday. The principal articles on which duties were paid were wine, beer, tobacco, tea, and sugar. The Commissioner of Works intends to abolish the system of day labor for Government works, aa he considers it a mistake. Mr Garnet Walsh is insolvent. Liabilities, £2OOO. There is not a single bed unlet at any firstclass hotel in Melbourne. The refrigerating machinery of the Australian Frozen Meat Company is working satisfactorily. The temperature in the snowpit has reduced to 32deg. below zero. It is expected that the Proto* will be despatched within two weeks. Mr Thompson has received a telegram. from his brother, in London, stating that Triokett was never in belter health. The betting is 6 to 4 on Hanlan, The principal items in the Estimates laid on the table of the Assembly are—Works in connection with the International Exhibition, £84,894; expenses of the exhibition, £15,000 ; collecting census, £18,000; defense works, £23,000, SYDNEY, October 28. At the opening of the Free Library, Sir Wigram Allen stated that land, within his recollection, which had been sold for £l2 per aore here had lately fetched £l2 a foot. Advices from Norfolk Island on October 2nd, state that the station mission vessel Southern Cross arrived on 15th September, from here, on a second cruise, all well. Santa Cruz was visited, and a landing effected a short distance from where Commodore Goodenough was killed. The bishop went ashore alone, and was kindly received by the Natives, who consented to receive a teacher, and one was left under the protection of a chief. All the other stations on the Melanesian mission are fairly prosperous. The bishop was left at Torres Island. Edward Rjan, charged with poisoning the racehorse Starlight, has been committed to take his trial at the next quarter sessions at Marrabrie, which will be held on November 16th. BBISBANE, October 28. The Bnnum Bailway Company was registered in the Supreme Court on Monday, capital £200,000, in shares of £lO each. ADELAIDE, October 28. A young man named Thomas Hughes was painting a truck in the railway yard, and when stooping he was struck on the head by a passing truck and killed instantaneously. At the annual meeting of the Society of Arts it was decided, on the suggestion of the Government, to make an effort to obtain a loan of the Exhibition pictures belonging to the Queen and Prince of Wales, also some from the South Kensington Museum. The new Institute buildings are likely to be finished by the time that the Melbourne Exhibition closes, and the University Library will be available. A faushman was found hanging to a tree at Port Gerinard. The case was evidently one of determined suicide. “E. A. Weston” was found on a small mirror on the deceased. A swagman named John McDermott died at Houghton aged 102. In the Council to-day the Chinese Bill and Parliamentary Salaries Bill were thrown out.