AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2161, 28 January 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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I"Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington.] PYDNEY, January 22. Owing to the difficulty in procuring news of the Conference the "Herald” strong complaint this morning, and says it seems curious that the representative of the Melbourne Press should gain information of the proceedings of the Conference which was sternly denied to the Sydney Press. TEMOBA, January 22.

At a monster meeting of watermen miners, held yesterday, about the water supply, inflammatory speech*! were made to take the dam by force. Ultimately it was agreed that if high prices were continued to bo charged they would go and take the water. At the Conference yesterday they had under consideration a telegram placed before them, addressed to Lord Loftus by Sir Arthur Gordon, referring to the action of the Conference in appointing a committee to inquire into his powers as High Commissioner, and stating that application should have been made to him. The Conference resolved to send a reply stating their readiness to receive any information Sir Arthur Gordon was prepared to furnish. MELBOURNE, January 21. A bush fire between Windermere and Smythesdule destroyed £IO,OOO worth of property. Four Oollingwood larrikins were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for assaulting Chinamen. Edward Barnes, employed at tho Parliament Library, was sentenced to three months for indecency. Detective Ward denies that Hart, who was arrested at Echuca, is the brother ot Steve Hart.

QUEENSLAND, January 21. A case of criminal libel, Senthnrpe v the editor of the “ Western Champion,” was coneluded on Thursday. The editor was committed for trial at the April Session at Rockhampton. It was deposed that Skenthorpe had stated publicly that he had found the telescope, diary and compass of Leiohardt near Balt Creek, under a coolibad tree at Herbert River, and the relics he said were twenty’inches underground, also that be got Olassan’s diary from information received from the blacks.