AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2093, 8 November 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Telbgbaph.] [Per s.s. ATawata, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, November 3. During the past week public interest has exclusively been centred on the race meeting. Melbourne was never so full as at the present time. During the week 2500 persons arrived hy steamer alone from the adjoining colonies. The hotels and boarding houses are thronged. Many have experienced great difficulty in obtaining accommodation. The weather, whioh previously had been unsettled and threatening, yesterday became very fine. The proceedings passed off with the greatest possible success. It was generally agreed that the attendance on the course numbered 100,000; 56,000 travelled by railway alone, being an increase of nearly 20,000 on last year. The Omnibus Company had seventy vehicles plying to the course. The grand stand enclosure was inconveniently thronged, but it was unanimously agreed that such a brilliant scene had never been witnessed in the colonies. Notwithstanding the numerous attendance at Flemington, nearly 20,000 paid for admission at the Exhibition yesterday. Complaints continue as to the inadequate arrangements for refreshments, which many yesterday were unable to obtain. The annual show of the National Agricultural Society opens to-day. The entries are rery numerous. The Commissioners of the Exhibition have offered several medals. A forty-eight hours' go-as-you-please contest ia now in progress at the Hippodrome, Exhibition street. There are thirteen competitors, several having entered at eleven yesternight. Edwards, the colonial champion, has walked 110, Swan, the New Zealand champion, 106, and Williams 87 miles. EiwEirds did 100 miles in 20 hours 51 seconds, the fastest time on record. The Frozen Meat Company report that the machinery is working most satisfactorily. Carcases of sheep are now undergoing a process of refrigeration. The temperature in the snow pit has been reduced to 30 degrees below Zero, and oarcases are being thoroughly frozen in two hours. The temperature of the chamber is kept at about seven degrees below freezing point. The arrangements for the review at Flemington on the 9th ore oompleted. It is expected that a large attendance of Metropolitan and country Volunteers will take place, and that the affair will prove most successful. SYDNEY, November 3. It is understood that Parliament will be dissolved about the 9th. Notwithstanding the answer to the miners of the associated oolleries by the masters on the question of the payment of back-money is accordance with the decision of the arbitrators, the Munni miners have struck, claiming a penny per ton from the time of signing the agreement to refer the previous dispute to arbitration. The other miners, too, have notified that they will require back-money. The railway oil stores were completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. By great exertions the fire was confined to the building in which it originated, which accounts for the small loss, which is estimated at £I3OO. The increase in the export of wool for October is 30,000 bales over the corresponding month of last year. ~ Sir Henry Parkes, when laying the foundation stone of a school at Orange, made a speech. He considered long parliamentary sessions a mistake. He said the increase in revenue for the paßt five months brought the surplus for New South Wales to £200,000. A |man named John Walsh, recently arrived from New Zealand, shot himself dead yesterday. ADELAIDE, November 4. The Australian Eleven are expected to arrive on the 15th, playing their first match on the 20th. The Government Besident at Palmerston reports that 20,0000z5. gold have been taken in the Margaret field by about 600 Chinese. He thinks the day is approaching when the Northern Territory will be more of a blessing than a burden. He expeots the sugar and cotton will soon yield larger profits than wheat.