AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2563, 26 June 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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[Per b.b. Te Anan at tho Bluff ] MELBOURNE, June 20. Some rain has fallen, but more ifl required, . The comet has been visible nightly in tne north-west, , . . In P. P. Shier and Co.’s sequestrated estate the majority of the creditors are out of the colony, Two boys, named McOonachio and Kentish, have been smothered in the sand at Sandridge. With three others they had constructed a cave, which fell in. The other boys were rescued. It has been decided that an international ploughing match will be held on the Obernside estate, at Werribee. Tho Australian Club’* coursing meeting was concluded last week. It was one_ of the best that has taken place. Proserpine, the winner of the Oup, belongs to Mr Wagner. The runner up was Kingfisher, belonging to a Sydney owner. A Sydney dog, Paddington, won the Australian Purse. It is stated that there are 1700 children in Melbourne and its suburbs who never attend ary school. A police constable named Darrell, while crossing the railway near Richmond, was run over and killed by a passing train. He was terribly mutilated. In connection with the cricketing scandal, Mr Conway, upon being challenged, has written to tho “ Herald,” stating that rumors were current in the colony that Ulyett and Selby were in collusion with the bookmakers, but ho never could obtain any satisfactory proof. Victoria will be represented at tho Bordeaux Exhibition by forty-five exhibitors, contributing 2300 gallons of wine. SYDNEY, June 20.

The statement that Sir H. Parkes obtained £3OOO from the public funds for his trip to Europe is denied by Sir John Robertson. The shipping trade at Newcastle is increasing, The orders for coal are unprecedented, and it is stated that one colliery has orders booked for 100,000 tons.

The Oannonbar gang of bushrangers is broken up by the arrest of the leader, who is tho same man who escaped from Bruebe gaol, when confined on a charge of horsestealing. An important movement is on foot amongst the carpenters and joiners to obtain an increase of a shilling a day to their wages, raising them from 10s to 11s. ADELAIDE, Juno 20. ?Sl

No wheat was exported for the week ending May 29th. No similar occurrence has taken place since 1878. Notwithstanding that the late harvest was deficient, the export* of wheat this year have been 2,363,493 bushels, or half-a-million bushels more than for the previous year. It is said that some of the large mills will soon stop for want of wheat. The farmers, it is stated, are holding for an advance, and are themselves considerable holders.