AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2612, 21 August 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Telegraph. I

[Per b.b. Te Anan, at the Bluff ] MELBOURNE, August 15. The Assembly alTj psss.d sixteta sew linea of railway. The Government pvopsse to fljat in the London market in Dacoraber meat of the debenture* already Bent Home. In the event of requiring an advance it will raise the money by selling Treasury Bills in London.

The Bev. Mr Stobbs, a Presbyterian minister, who occupied a prominent position in the colony, died at the early age of forty-two. The recent plebiscite! against granting naw licenses to public houses is overwhelmingly against more public houses. Great efforts are being made by working men to raise £SOOO to secure Mr Ormond's £SOOO, for the ereotion of a Working Men's College, Mr Ormond has announced that further benefaotors will give £IOOO towards the endowment of the Working Men's College, conditionally on a like amount being raised also, to asaist in the endowment of a theological hall for the Ormond College. The steamer Marsala leaves here immediately. She takes in a cargo of meat at New Zaaland, and thence proceeds, via Torres Straits and Batavia, to England. The annual horse parade, held yesterday, has not been equalled ic the colony. Justice Johnston, of New Zealand, recently occupied a seat on the Supreme Court Benoh here.

The Savings Banks returns for the past year show a very satisfactory state of affairs, There ia a large increase of deposits. The case cf Wiltris v Hara, being an action against a medioal man for e-.s&ulting the plaintiff's wife, lasted three days, and resulted in a five-sixths' verdiot for defendant.

Steps are being takan for a musical festival at the end of the year, on the same footing as festivals in the old country. A. large guarantee fund is being formed. The Sorata's general average is the largest statement yet adjusted in the colonies. She had a cargo for sixteen different ports in the oolonies.

The sohooner Pear Not has been wrecked on Hogan's group.,' All the crew were saved. The robbery of £IOOO in notes from the Colonial Bank is surrounded by mystery. The key of the safe was taken from the packet of the manager in his bedroom, and the notes were abstracted. Soma gold in the safe was untouohed.

SYDNEY, August 15. Thomas, a contractor, fell overboard from the steamer Morpeth while going down the harbor. Tbo body was afterwards found at Moisman's Bay. The old cathedral at Bathurst is to be pulled down and re-erected. The schooner 10, while on a labor cruise, was wrecked seventy-two miles from Maoksy. The hands took to the boats and were saved.

Segenhoe is a great favorite for the A.J 0. Darby. Cannamulla is backed to win tho Melbourne Cap for £17.000.