AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2135, 28 December 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Tbxeobaph.] [Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington.] SYDNEY, December 22. At Temora, a meeting of Irishmen was held yesterday, and resolutions adopted in favor of Mr Parnell and the Land Leaguers. Subscriptions were opened in aid of Mr Parnell’s defence fund. The directors of the Millburn Creek copper mine are so favorably impressed with the prospects that they have determined starting smelting furnaces at the beginning of the year. MELBOURNE, December 22. In the Assembly, Mr Berry stated that a penny beer duty next year would realise £IOO,OOO, but the financial arrangements thi» year would not permit the reducing of the duty from 2d to Id a gallon at present, BRISBANE, December 22. Mr Griffiths, the leader of the Opposition, left for Sydney yesterday en route for England. A luge crowd witnessed his departure. It is rumored that Mr Drury, general manager of the Queensland National Bank, is going to England on business connected with Government. Mr Perkin, Minister for Lands, will probably bo Acting-Treaaurer during Mr MoIlwraith’s absence. The New Caledonian escapees refuse to admit tha) they are the persons described in the extradition papers, and as they cannot boidentified, they therefore are atUl detained. Their counsel insists that the Bench has no power to surrender them to the French authorities without a personal identification of each. ADELAIDE, December 22. The sale of old wheat, 1500 bags, f.0.b.. Fort Viotore, is reported at 4s 3td ; 4s s|d is asked for new, without business. HOBART TOWN, December 22. The Australians in their second innings made the following :—Bannerman, bowled, 24 ; Jarvis, caught, 5 ; Murdock, caught, 4 Slight, thrown out, 5 ; filackham, caught, 11 j Spofforth, not out, 2; Groube, not out, 8 j extras, 6. Total, 65. The match was, therefore, won by five wickets.