AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2188, 1 March 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tkibbbjlfh.] [Per 8.6. City of Svdnev, at Auckland.] SYDNEY, February 24. The result of the recent inspection of Botany Swamp Like ia that the Council adopt a system of water supply. Punch's Hotel was sold for £24,000 to Franc Punch.

There wag sharp opposition in the Assembly to the allowance for lodging the Governor’s aide-de-camp, being bis own son, and residing at Government House. Ultimately the amount was voted. Mrs Lewis died under chloroform while some teeth were being extracted. Dr Cox wae in attendance during the operation. The jury found that everything that could be wsi done.

Two shops, with 35ft frontave to Pitt street, realised £IO,OOO, equal to £3OO a foot, Archibald Forbes, war correspondent, who is lecturing to immense audiences in New York, and other large cities, states that on his arrival in Auckland in May his tour through the colonies will probably be conducted by Mr E. S. Smylhe. Mr Williamson has bought from Mr Gilbert Sullivan the sole right of producing the “ Pirates of Penzance" in Australia and New Zealand, and notifies that he will proceed against any one infringing the copyright. At Punryth, a murder was committed on Tuesday. The victim is a farmer named Freeman. A relation of the deceased, named Williams, is believed to have battered deceased on the skull with a heavy stick. Williams bid himself, taking a long knife, and when found was arrested and lodged in the lock-up. Ho is supposed to be insane. At Temora there is great excitement about a new reefing district, opened two and a half miles south-west of the upper portion of the town, Chaims have been pegged out for a great distance. A telegram has been received from Olunes in Yictoria, stating that the 33cwt stone from Bourke's Beef, taken by Victorian buyers, averaged saz 3dwts per ton. Constable Walsh, at Wangaratta, has been committed for trial for a burglary at the Boyal Hotel.

Tho revenue of the Bailway Department shows a steady increase. It is intended to proceed with os many new lines as possible at soon as surveys shall have been completed and tenders can bo called.

In consequence of cases of imposition having been discovered in connection with the maintenance of the Lunacy Department, a thorough investigation has been made, which has discovered half-a-dozen shameful impositions upon the State by people in easy circumstances.

A shooting affray has occurred in Spring street, Baum, described as a merchant was wounded. Three chambers of a revolver were found discharged, Baum was taken to the hospital. The suse is mysterious. It appears that L.wrence, a clerk, who wae arrested, is not the right man, and he will probably be discharged. The whole cost of the Exhibition building was £329,000. 'Allowing fjr receipts and tale of annexes, the deficiency will be about £33,000.