AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2507, 20 April 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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[Per s s. Rotorua, at Auckland.] SYDNEY, April 13,

The Colonial Secretary has received a telegram from Wiloannia, stating that provisions are now plentiful, and the sickness is decreasing. There are serious accounts of the effects of the drought. Between Dabbo and Oobar carriage has advanced to £2o_per ton. 150 bullock teams have perished this eoason for want of water.

The 25 ton gun, accidentally sunk at the heads, has been brought up by the divers. The Sydney hand-ball bowlers beat the Ballarat team by 35 points. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of the school-girl run over by the tramcar. A peculiar disease has broken out amongst the draught horses in the Dubbo dstriot. _ The hind legs swell, after which the animals stagger and die. It is stated that a large number are lying round about the town in (he country between Forbes and Oondolix, suffering terribly from drought. A hundred fhoep and cattle are dying for want of grass and water.

MELBOURNE, April 18.

The Government have accepted the following coal tenders Western Port Company, 50,000 tons at 10s; Capo Patterson Company, SOCOOtonsat 9s; Nathaniel Leek, 100,000 tons at 9 1 6d. The Government have resolved to adopt Sir John Goode’s scheme for opening up land at the lakes, coati g £60,000. The Minister of Lands has returned i'tom the Wimeram district, and reports the position of the selectors to be very satisfactory.

The Grampane stone selected for the new Parliament House has been found qaita unsuitable. It is stated it could be reduced to now-dor by merely rubbing. Major Smith accompanies Mr Graham Berry to Sydney. The Government have ordered twenty firstclass and fifty second-class railway carrisgos from England. BRISBANE, April 13.

The Treasury has declined to construct a new dredge for the northern ports in the colony, on the ground of the long time it would take to build. A telegram has been received reporting the loss of a boat belonging to the labor schooner Ohunoe, with all hands, off Tauma. It is supposed she swamped, end the crew perished. AIELAIDE, April 13.

At a meeting of public teachers, an Resistant exprejsed an opinion that religious instruction ought not to bo given to the schools-

The Goolar wharf is blocked with steamers. There is an immense glut also of wool and other goods. The Young Men’s Christian Association will shortly commence their new building, which is to cost £15,000.