AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2253, 18 May 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Tbihqbaph.] [Per s.s, Rotorua, at Bussell.j MELBOURNE, May 12. A outrage was committed by three larrikins at St. Hilda on the sth inst. upon a Chinaman. When arrested, the hands of the prisoners were covered with blood. Arrangements for the closing ceremony of the Exhibition are in active progress. A promenade concert is fixed for the 21st, and will be held in the afternoon, and the Princes are expected to attend. On the following Thursday a ball will be given in the great haU and it is estimated that six thousand will be present. The Trevelyan, which arrived on Monday from London, brought Captain Mars Yore, and six men from the schooner Edward Slattery, which was wrecked at Tristan D’Aounha on March Bth. The master states that he was conveying stores to the island when a calm set in and the vessel drifted ashore. They barely escaped with their lives. The population of the island is 106.

Mr Berry has purchased a number of statues from the Italian Court for the Government. The amount spent is £2OOO. In the Assembly, Mr Berry, in reply to a question, said that it was the intention of the Government next session to introduce a Bill dealing with the Chinese question. The Bill will be the same as that agreed to at the conference in Sydney, but goes further than any legislation yet attempted. The Government intend to recognise the services of Houston, who behaved gallantly on the occasion of the torpedo explosion. The heads of the Australian Goldfield have been discovered at the head of Mary river. A hundred and eighty Chinese are on the ground getting half an ounce per day. The quarterly report of the Government resident in the Northern territory states that the rapid growth of sugar cane is marvellous. A great many Europeans at Palmerston have been attacked by fever, but not fatally. He urges Europeans not ta come to seek alluvial gold, as it is hopeless for them to compete with the Chinese. Men with capital were required to develop the reefs with Chinese labor. SYDNEY, May 12. The Senate of the University of Sydney has been lately favorably considering the expediency of admitting female students on the same footing as males to the lectures, examinations and academical degrees. It is probable that before this can be accomplished recourse must be had to legislation on the subject. A deputation from the Trades Labor Council and the amalgamated carpenters and joiners interviewed Sir H. Farkes on Thursday and asked the use of the Garden Palace for a mass anti-Chinese meeting. Sir H, Parkes refused to grant the Palace for meetings of a political character. Several members of the proposed football team to visit England have returned to Sydney from Melbourne, and the project has been abandoned.