AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2106, 23 November 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[BKUTEB's lELEOEAHB.] SYDNEY, November 22. ShippingArrived—"Wakatipu, from "Wellington. Political. At present the elections have resulted in a number of new members being elected by small majorities. Sir H. Parkes, the Premier, has been elected for East Sydney by a small majority. SYDNEY, November 23. ElectoralIn the election for West Sydney, which .took place yesterday, David Buchanan, a well-known politician, was rejected, and D'. O'Connor was elected, despite the extreme measures- adopted by the Orangemen to secure- the latter's rejection, as a measure of" reprisal for Sir Henry Partes' low poll at East Sydney. BRISBANE, November 22. The Norseman WreckedThe Norseman has been wrecked. She is insured in the National Insurance Company, of New Zealand, the South British Company, and New Zealand Company, for £SOO in each. BRISBANE, November 23. South Sea Island Massacres. News has been received that the. captain and crew of the Annie Brooks were murdered in September by the natives'of'New Stone Island, and that a. party of French naturalists were massacred last month by the natives c£' Moreby Island. MELBOURNE, November 23. ObituaryThe death is announced to-day of Sir Redmond:Berry, one of puisne judges of Victoria,, aged 62. The deceased had suffered for some time from a carbnnele which was the cause o£ death. The Reform Bill. It is expected that the discussion of Mr Berry's Reform Bill will be.-eom-menced in. the Assembly to-night.