AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2596, 2 August 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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[Per s.s. Hero, at the Bluff ) MELBOURNE, July 27.

Railway matters occupied the principal attention of the Assembly during the week. The Hallway Bill caused considerable discussion, and the expenditure on additional rolling stock gave rise to an animated debate. The Government are anxious to obtain twenty five locomotives from England and a similar number from America, but the Pro. teotionisis urge that they can be manufactured in the colony, although at an additional cost of £32 000. The merits of colonial as against English locomotives were hotly contested. At a dinner recently given at Hawthorne the Minister of Justice intimated that another want of confidence motion was pending against the Government on the land question, and that if the Government were defeated Mr Berry would return to office, not Mr Francis. He also hinted at the probability of a dissolution.

The Chief Secretary hat received an intimation from London that the time selected for floating the loan was the beginning of the now year, which ia considered the most favorable.

The Government have asked the Secretary for the Colonies for the the services of a Lieutenant-Colonel and two Captains of Artillery and Infantry for a period of five years. have appeared that, after the 31st of October next, no explosives other than gunpowder are to be imported into the colony. The Garonne, which sailed on the 25th, took a consignment of meat well packed in calico. The carcases were of considerable weight, The net profit of the last Melbourne Cnp meeting was £8646. Carol!, who was formerly a member of the Assembly, and was sen'enoed to fourteen years for forgery, has been released at the expiration of seven years. At a recent examination, Mr Wright, of the insolvent firm of Wright, Bayne and Co., stated that the annual turn over of the firm was £IOO,COO. He admitted that he was so ignorant of book-keeping that, on looking at the ledger, ho did not know what the folios meant.

The unusual sight of a snowstorm in Melbourne was witnessed yesterday. The cargo of frozen meat by the Lusitania, now at Suez, has been offered to the War Office for the troops in Egypt. During the last few days the rainfall has considerably increased. SYDNEY, July 27.

The labor market is unusually healthy for all sorts of employment. Plasterers have received as much as 14s a day, all expenses paid. The locality of the smallpox outbreak is in the vicinity of last year’s scare. The bulk of the miners have received an increase in wages. Tney express their gratification at the manner in which their request has been received by the managers. Bread at Bourke is selling at Ss a loaf. ADELAIDE, July 27. I Ostrich farming is making good progress,' | Archibald Eorbes has received a most enthusiastic welcome.