AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2568, 30 June 1882, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Tbx.bsbaph.J ("Per s.s. Hero, at Port Chalmers 1 MELBOURNE, Juno 23. The sudden change cf front on the j-ait of the Government in i fleeting oompres- is. with Mr Francis is received with merited -iis favor by the Opposition, end does not meet with the unanimous approval of the constitu tion.-.i party ■ Great opposition is likely to hr offered to the continuation of tho tobao’o duty at) a poucanent impost. Exception it: also taken to the Government postponing reducing the postal rate till next year, ns it is impossible for the present to decide what the postal revenue shall be in 1883. There are grave doubts whether the Governmeat will carry their budget proposals in the present form, . Tho Railways Construction Bill, whicn is similar to tha Bill of last session, was road secondly in tho Astembly yesternight. The ship Blaokwa I, recently dismasted and towed into Waratab, has arrived here. She has aboard two seamen of tho ship Balwnob, which foundered on the Ist March while on the voyage from Yokohama to Puget Sound. The two men got cast away in an open boat, and were nine days at sea before being picked up by tho Blaokwall, They endured great privation from exposure and from tho want of water, and were ia a most critical condition. When rescued they were 300 miles from land. Judge Billing, who died on Wednesday night, was only appointed County Court Judge in April last. He recently returned from circuit wearied, and was struck with paralysis and died a few days ego. _ There is no immediate intention to appoint a sueoossor. The libel action, Rev. Alexander Dowie against Thomas Walk“r. tho spiritualist and Freethonght lecturer, for certain_ published fctatements, resulted in a compromise. SYDNEY, Juno 23, Tho Governor received a telegram from Earl Kimberley informing him that the Homo Government assented to tho proposition to transfer to the colony all lands over which the Imperial Government had claim, on condition that the colony cede portion of Dawe’s Point and erect an admiral’s residence, with buildings for naval yards and stores. The total value of property handed over to the colony is estimated at a million and a-halt sterling. An almost unprecedented activity prevails among the shipping at Newcastle, There arc only a few carpenters on strike, the masters having, in most cases yielded to the terms demanded.