AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2516, 2 May 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Tbikobaph.] [Per s.s. Bingarooma at Russell.] SYDNEY, April 27. The war ship Espiegle, which relieves the Cormorant, arrived yesterday. The foundation stone of a new warehouse in Pitt street for Hollering and Co. was laid yesterday. The new premises will cost £70,000, exclusive of the site. The delegates attending the Presbyterian Conference were taken an excursion in the harbor yesterday by the hospitality of a committee of the Sydney churches. The thirty-third annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held yesterday. The report, wae adopted, with an amendment for the alteration made in the electing of the Dunedin auditors. MELBOURNE, April 27.

The debate on the Address was resumed yesterday. Mr Berry moved an addition to the reply, tantamount to a vote of want of confidence, on the ground of mismanogoment of the railways and the ordering of material from England. It is believed the Government will have a good majority. Efforts are still being made to obtain a remission of tho sentence on Thorpe, who embezzled funds belonging to the Bank of Victoria,

The “Age” and the " Daily Telegraph” express regret at the insertion of an advertisement reflecting upon the Bev. Mr Donnie.

Eive hundred pounds’ worth of jewellery was stolen from a shop in Oollingwood yesterday. BRISBANE. The Government sale of runs on the 25th resulted in a good competition. Eighty-two runs were sold.

Telegrams from Nairna to the Colonial Secretary state that the passengers per Genii, when there, did not require any assistance. The steward of the steamer Derwent has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for smuggling jewellery. ADELAIDE; Tho Parliament is prorogued till tho Ist of June.

In the North there are reports of an extraordinary rain-fall. Many miles of country are now under water.

Tho Government Surveyor has sketched a good direct road to Mount Brown goldfields.