AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2159, 26 January 1881, Page 3

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MELBOURNE, January 20. The foreign Commissioners are to be asked to consent to keep the Exhibition open until April 30bh instead of March 81st. At the hospital committee meeting on Tuesday, Dr. Thomas, one of the resident surgeons, was reprimanded and dismissed on the spot with reference to the recent death of a woman named O’Oonnel. Another of the resident staff was dismissed owing to the attitude he maintained towards the committee.

SYDNEY, January 20. In the Assembly, a Supply Bill for one month was introduced. A long discussion took place on the proposal to include in the Bill £16,500, awarded by the arbitrators in the case of the Melbourne Creek Copper Company. Subsequently the item was withdrawn. The item for immigration was passed upon the pledge of the Treasurer that no money would be expended until the Committee b&d an opportunity of discussing the whole question on its merits when the estimates were under consideration. The Parnell defence committee have decided to send a cablegram to Dublin remitting £2OO.

Ma Buchanan has received the following from Mr Gladstone, under date 10th November—“ Mr Gladstone desires me to acknowledge your letter on the subject of the Divorce Bill. He has been in communication with the Secretary for the Colonies with regard to it, and he thinks you do not clearly understand the condition upon which the assent of the Queen was given to the Bill. The condition is that no suit for a dissolution of marriage shall be entertained by the Colonial Courts under the .proposed measure without proof to their satisfaction that the parties to the - suit were at 'the time of its institution domiciled in the colony. Mr' Gladstone wishes to add that he trusts you will recognise that Her Majesty’s Government have been actuated by a wish to meet as far as possible the views of the colonial legislature, and that any alteration which may have been suggested in the measure is necessary to render it effectual and satisfactory for its purpose. Mr Yale, the Attorney-General of Victoria, delivered an address on temperance to a crowded meeting. ADELAIDE, January 20.

In consequence of some unpleasantness between ship owners and insurers, owing to the unsatisfactory state of the law respecting the load line, some of the local shipowners propose establishing a Protective Society, similar to the one in Melbourne.