AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2570, 3 July 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(.BX TEI.EORArII.J LPer e.s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff J MELBOURNE, Juno 23. It now appears that there is soma prospect of business being transacted in tho Assembly. List night tho subject of defences was brought forward, and Mr Woods wanted tho question to be submitted as one of urgency. The cum of £IOO 000 was voted towards defence works. Altogether about a million waa voted |on account cf cs.iaa'ee, iuclading £IOO,OOO for water conservation. The project of a Working Mens’ College has been taken up with spirit. An enthu elastic mooting was held oa Monday night, at which Judge Higgenbothara, tho Bishop of Melbourne, and others spoke. Seventeen hundred pounds has been subscribed, in addition to Mr Ormond’s gift of £SOOO. Mr Ooulton, whose premises at Prahran were partially destroyed by dynamite, has issued a writ against the South British Insurance Company of New Zealand, to recover the policy which the company declined to pay, as Mr Ooulton only insured against fire. The strike which recently took place amongst the railway workmen at Albury and Wodonga is now ended. A fire, surrounded with tome mystery, occurred early on Sunday morning in Beckett street. A man was found on the premises suffocated. The loss by tho fire was £3500. Toe Au«tral’s was the quickest passage yet to Australia, tYDNEY, Juno 23. A company has been formed for the pur* pose of supplying frozsn moat to tho Government of Java.

Bocky Waterholes Hotel, on the Darling, has been burnt to the ground. O'Brien and his wife, who were both drunk, was burnt to death. The others were saved with difficulty. A proposal to held a juvenile exhibition in the Garden Palace in November hss been warmly taken up. It is expected that it will prove a great success. ADELAIDE, June 28.

Mr Flint, station master at Alice Springs, says he believes that he has found traces of Leichardt a hundred miles east of the tele graph line. He met a friendly tribe _of Natives, who corroborated the information that a white man died in the vicinity many years ago, about tho timo of Laichardt’e exped'ton. Mr Flint was unable to pursue his inquiries further owing to tho want of food and water. The above ia tho only information, and requires confirmation. Bishop Selwyn, ot Melanesia, has written, declining a nomination for the Bishopric of Adelaide, partly from personal reasons and partly because be thought the proper sphere for his labors is where he ig at present.