AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2294, 10 August 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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("Per b.s. Hero, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, August 1

Mr Casey having decided not to stand, Mr Biberison, a constitutionalist, was returned unopposed for Golworth. Sir B. O'Loghlennominated Mr Cooper for the Chairmanship of committees on the 28 th, while Messrs Nimmo and Barr, on behalf of the Liberals proposed Mr Mason. Mr Cooper was elected by 36 against 31. There was a good attendance at the Assembly on the 2Stb, when the Benches showed that the Government would receive a fair support, their being about thirty-eight members on either side. The position of the Government is materially strengthened since the re-elec-tion. The ministers are expected to have a tenure of offise longer than was at first anticipated. They have now to appoint a Minister of Lands, also of Works, and Treasurership. Messrs Madden, Levien, and Burrows are mentioned as likely members for the positions.

The Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners resolved that all unsuccessful nominees for the Emperor of Germany's prize shall receive a gold medal. The shipment of frozen English fish ex Cuzco was offered by auction on the 27th. The highest bid was Is 6i per lb. The fish was withdrawn from sale.

The Mayor of Melbourne, at the request'of the Jewish residents, convened a meeting for the purpose of expressing sympathy on account of the outrages against the Jews in Southern Russia.

The steamer Murray is still fast aground at the Lake entrance to Gippsland, and has driven considerably ashore since she first struck. The position is regarded as extremely critioal.

?Jr Berry, on Saturday, complained of a coi.tinual falling away from the Liberal ranks, and declared that when the tradesman becomes well-to-do he becomes conservative. He predicted, however, that the Liberal party would be re-organised and speedily regain favour in the Assembly. On the 28fch a discussion took place on the molting of New Zealand barley in bond. Mr A. T. Clarke explained that he had authorised the so doing with a view to encouraging the malt trade. It afterwards transpired that there was no legal permit for barley to be malted in bond, and Mr Graves promised that authority to do bo will not extend beyond the parcel now in hand. The Appropriation Bill passed its final stage the same sitting, thus virtually closing the present session of the Parliament.

The "Argus" leader maintains that Mr Clarko's late action in allowing malting to be performed in bond by Throssell and Co., to the exclusion of other firms who wished to do likewise, is indefensible. At the same time it urges that no harm can accrue to the Victorian farmers by allowing New Zealand barley to be malted. Mr Pirani, one of the University lecturers, met with an accident on Saturday, which it is feared may terminate fatally. His horse bolted, and fell sideways on its rider, whose skull was fractured, and he received other injuries of a very serious nature. SYDNEY, August 1.

Earl Clanwilliam is steadily improving, and hopes to resume duty in a few days. The Princes rejoin the Bacchante in a few days. During the past week they have remained chiefly aboard the Tourmaline. The Emerald leaves here for New Zealand in about a month, where she takes aboard Sir Arthur Gordon for his trip to Fiji, Tonga, and other places. Captain Webber, of the Ocean, has written a letter to the Executive, complaining of harsh treatment at the Quarantine Station, and stated that tho passengers and orew were stripped naked on board, and given a single suit of clothes and one blanket in exchange for their owa raiment.

H.M. 8. Miranda loft Sydney on Saturday for the South Seas, where she relieves the Cormorant. On the receipt of the news that Lord Clanwilliam had been raised to the rank of ViceAdmiral, the flag was immediately -transferred to the mizen-foremast and salutes were tired from the Wolverine and Tourmaline. The Admiral continues to progress towards recovery. A Bank manager who recently _ visited Mount Brown reports well of the diggings, and says he could have purchased 800 oz of gold on the field. Two farther oases of small-pox were discovered on the 28th—a young man in Baglan street and a child at Wooloomooloo. The house is now quarantined. Forty-four special sm*ll-pox constables are now on guard over

t ,e infeoted dwellings, and speoial preparation for the prevention of the spread of the disease continues. Suspicious oases are duly reported. BRISBANE, August 1. Latent news from the scene of the massacre ut New Britain reports that four whites were altogether massacred, including Fleimsmith, the German naturalist, his two assistants, and an Englishman named Lyttleton. The Sandfly and Beagle are 00-operating to punish tho savages, but the principal offenders escaped. General Fielding, representing London capitalists, with his engineers and surveyors, leave here on 4th August, to survey the route proposed for the transcontinental railway to Carpentaria. PERTH, August 1. The Legislative Council was opened by the Government on the 27th. His Excellenoy alluded to the improved finances of the colony, and expect the end of the present year will show a clean balance sheet. Survey for further railway extension will bo completed in August, when tenders will be invited. Proposals regarding the Linwin lighthouse will shortly bo submitted, with a view of inducing the Messageries steamers to call at Freemantle. He said he had offered to remit port dues, &c, and finally informed the House that an extension of Government buildings would shortly be prooeeded with, and also tho establishment of a savings bank throughout tho oolonies.