AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2124, 14 December 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By TuiißaßAPS,] [Per b.B. Ringarooma at the Bluff.] A portion of the Australian News, per the above ship, was given in our issue of yesterday. The following are additional items : MELBOURNE, December 7. Steps are being taken to raise a fund for the erection of a suitable memorial to Sir Redmond Barry. Already a thousand pounds have been subscribed. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday for the purpose of determining which measures to press forward and which to abandon. The date of the rising of the House depends on the passing of the former, otherwise there will be no adjournment for a recess. The New Zealand entries for the wool show amount to twenty-three, consisting of merino, washed, one; unwashed, one; long wool, washed, five; unwashed, fourteen; scoured, two. The six days’ go as you please walking tournament finished on Saturday with some excitement, Baker and Swan being very close. The former, who soon recovered from the effects of the drugged beer, won with 307 miles one lap; Swan walked 306 miles ten laps ; Seymour (Sydney), 280 miles two laps; and Harris (Melbourne), 248 miles. The prizes were fifty, thirty, fifteen, and five guineas, besides a share of the gate money. SYDNEY. December 7. The schooner Beagle reports that Captain Murray and three of the crew of the Leila, cutter, were killed at Port Webber by the Natives. The captain had traded with the Natives, and the latter refusing to deliver the copra sold, he went to remonstrate. Leaving the chief’s house, he was fired at and killed. Two of the crew were overpowered and killed, also a Native who fled to the bush. The Beagle also reports that the Marquis De Rays’ last expedition had settled at an improved position on the coast of New Britain. Only three deaths had occurred among the colonists, who number three hundred. The Bank of New Zealand has transferred their business to the premises recently purchased from the Mutual Provident Society. ADELAIDE, December 7. The exports of the colony for the last eleven months exceed those of last year. The forty-eight hours’ walking match concluded on Saturday. Edwards walked 172 miles, Bray 147, and Gibson 134. Edwards proceeds to Now Zealand this week.