AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2504, 18 April 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

fßx Tbibgbaph.] [Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington. | MELBOURNE, April 12. Mr Billing, Q. 0., has been appointed County Court Judge. Burglars entered the sheriff’s office on the 11th, end stele money from the charity collection box.

Mr Berry, with several members of the Opposition, proceeds to Sydney on the 14th. A new college for Methodist students, costing £12,000, is nearly compleled. SYDNEY, April 12. The ship Samuel Plimsoll left London on the 6th April with 405 immigrants for New South Wales.

The Marquis of Normanby visited the Agricultural Society’s show on the 11th, and remained several hours.

Captain Oulmot, of the ship Edith May, reports passing a vassal on the 18th February, believed to be the Min-y-don, in dirty weather, southward of Stewart’s Island,

The encampment of volunteers broke up on the 10th. The exercises and manoeuvres were considered very satisfactory. - Captain Moore, late suparintendant of the Insurance Fire Brigade, Sydney, has been appointed captain of the Adelaide Fire Brigade. A meeting of the Protection and Reform League on the, lltb, made arrangements for rooeiving Graham Berry at a public meeting on the 17th instant.

BRISBANE, April 12. Tho Government land sale at Maryborough on tho 11th aggregated £9OO, another at Ingham £2500. Mr Mansfield ha* been appointed Acting Judge of the Southern District Court.

[Per s.s. Te Anau, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE. April 12.

The weather has been unusually flue throughout tha holidays. The main body of volunteers under the colonel-commandant enca eped at Dandenong, where there was a sham fight on Monday, which passed off sncooaz fully, only the mines would not explode, owing, it is said, to the defective fn ea supplied to the Government. The Nelson, with the Naval Volunteers, went for a cruise outside tho Heads, and at midnight bombarded Qaeonscliffa, and took the batteries quite unawares. At Queonscliffo, on Monday, whore the artillery were cimped, a sad accident occurred, which caused the death of a man named Ros, an upholsterer. A shell was fired from a forty-pounder Armstrong gun, whoa it bur.-t. and the fragments wore seen flying all round; splinters fell on the beach just underneath the battery, and numbers of people at tha time were in the line of fire, apprehending no dam or. It is believed' that the accident was caused by seme particles of the white metal casing of tha shell flying off immediately the shell left the gun. Nothing serious would have resulted if tha people had not been present in tho line of fire

In tho reorganisation of the Railway Department tho professional staff will be divided into two branches, one engineer attending to tho extensions or new linos, the other taking charge of all lines open for traffic. Tho rainfall has only been partial in most parts of the country and not sufficient to give a supply. Prayers for rain have been offered up in tho Presbyterian Churches. Linklater, the barrister of Adelaide, has issued a -*rit against the Melbourne “ Herald,” claiming damages of £, 000 for libel connecting him with Forsyth in the recent insurance frauds. An accident took pla e on Monday on the suburban linos from Melbourne to Dandenong The pointsman turned a train of empty trucks into a blind siding, and before tho engine could bo stopped it ran into a clay bank, causing damage to tbe trucks and the break van. The guard and fireman are badly injured. SYDNEY, April 12.

The encampment at Middle Head passed off successfully. Tho number of faros taken on tho varicus tramway lines on Faster Monday reached a hundred thousand.

John Fitzgerald, a draper, was fatally stabbed at Blanoy. A man named Dansell is arrested on suspicion of the murder. A boiler exploded at Hart’s sawmills, Baymord terrace, and one man was hilled and mother seriously injured. The report of the tx.l aim was heard distinctly seven miles off.

The Forth Government are organising a survey party, headed by John Forrest, to proceed to Cambridge Qnlf. The patty is a large oao, and will probably bo absent several mentbs.