AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2588, 24 July 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Tblesbaph.]

[Per a.s. Arawata, at the Bluff.]

MELBOURNE, July If,

Tho Egyptian news has absorbed all interest during the past few days. The papers issued eeveral special editions, numbering as many as six in one day. The Government arc aooused of apathy in regard to tho defences. Sir B. O'Loghlen explained that everything possible was being done in regard to the batteries being completed, the permanent corps enrolled, and gun vessels ordered.

Some progress has been made with the Railway Bill. The comprehensiveness of the measure commends if to the House.

The trustees of the Publio Library and Muaeum have appliod to the Government for a grant of £12,000, for the purpose of providing increased accommodation, whioh is much required. The Government are favorable to the application, whioh will be granted when the publio funds permit. In the case of Hugh McOoll, a member of the Assembly, summoned for payment of a debt of £3O, Judge Higinbotham decided that the money received by a member of Parliament oould not be proceeded against. The weather for the past few days has been wot, and a good deol of rain has fallen throughout the country.

Another and a smaller theatre for Melbourne is projeoted. The Government do not intend to proclaim polling days as holidays, as the calendar affords quite enough holidays at present. The Suez pioneer steamship of the French line from Bordeaux brings 217 soldiers from Nsw Caledonia.

The Executive Council yesterday conferred the command of the permanent artillery on Colonel Lemarohand.

It is expected that the wool department in the Victorian Court will prove very attractive at the Australian Exhibition. Both growers and brokers have liberally responded to the invitation of the Government to co-operate. A fictitious mining telegram has been received by the manager of the Shamrcck mine, repoiliog an improvement in the reef. The manager doubting its aocuraoy telegraphed for a confirmation. He then discovered an attempt wai made to force the price of shares. Yesterday a talegraph operator at Egortou station was arrested, and confessed he ooncooted the telegram. He said he held 200 shares which he bought on terms, and sought to sell them at a rise. SYDNEY, July 18,

The fctory of the Grafton branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank baing stuck up, and the aooountant tied up and gagged, turns out to be a trumped up btory. Mcßriie, tho. aocountant; Robert Savage and Owen Wiloox, all young men respeotably connected, have been arrested for stealing the money. Wilcox has turned Queen's evidence, eud the polico have been enabled to recover £2700 of the money concealed in an old house. Great satisfaction is expressed at the conclusion of the Bore Hole strike, and a company at Newoas'le are again at work.