AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2624, 4 September 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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MELBOURNE, August 29. The Assembly have voted £BO,OOO for new railway stations in Melbourne. A number of now candidate* have announced themselves for seat* in the reformed Legislative Oouncil. Mr Clarke, one of the sufferers by the railway accident at Windsor, has obtained £ISOO damage*. A verdict of £IOO damage* has been given against Mr Wm. Clarke, MX. A., proprietor of the " Footscray Advertiser,” for libel. Sieber, who wa» convicted for the girl Maher in Bussell street, being asked if he had anything to say, requested that the death penalty might be carried oat as the most merciful sentence. Ho will not be subjected to solitary confinement. Subscription lists have been distributed by the Trades Hall committee in aid of the Working Men’s College, and the re*ult has been so far satisfactory. The Gatling gun shown at the Melbourne Exhibition has been purchased by the Government, and is now aboard the Cerberus.

The Chamber of Manufactures has carried a proposal as to the desirability of holding an Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne in 1884 to celebrate the half-century jubilee of the founding of the colony. _ Bain has been general during the past few days, but it is still insufficient in the southern districts.

The Southon Board has found that the charges against D.-s. Bulmar and Mat at the quarantine ground have not been proved, A large area of ooal is believed to exist in the Strezlocki Ranges, Oippsland. A Te Deum was sung in all the Roman Catholic Churches on Sunday for the escape of Archbishop Qoold. SYDNEY, August 29.

The Zealandia made the fastest passage on record from Auckland to Sydney, viz., three days and twenty-one hours. On the arrival of the steamer Qunga from Fiji, a Na'ivo servant of Sir Arthur Gordon was found to be suffering from smallpox. The vessel was placed in quarantine. A special train was in waiting to convey fir Arthur to Melbourne, to catch the steamer Rome. Instead of that the passengers, including Sir Arthur Gordon, have been sent to quarantine, where they are supplied with all necessary conveniences. The Fijian, whoso illness now proves to be undoubted smallpox, has been removed to Little Bay. The Gunga was thoroughly cleaned and disinfected and a fresh crow sent on board. The steamer was then brought on to Sydney, A proposal ha* been made for lighting the streets of Sydney by electricity. The proposal is to be reported upon by Mr Oraoknell. The workmen in the iron trades are on atrikejfor advanced wages. A new line of sailing vessels has been established between Now York and Sydney. Sting, who won the Hawkosbury Handicap in the fastest time yet made for that race, run last in the County Purse two days previously. Racing people cannot understand it.

The taam of footballers proceeded to New Zealand per Rotomahana on Thursday. The following players were selected :—Raper (captain), Graham, Richmond, B Thallou, H, Fligg, Bayliss, Walker, W. Flynn, McHatchie, 0. .Bygate. Barry, Mann, B. Hill, Hawkins, Howard, Butler, and Logan. They play at Auckland, Wellington, Ohrijtohu»ob, and Dunedin, returning via Wellington to Sydney. BRISBANE, August 29.

The Government have concluded a pro. visional agreement with Messrs Show and Blyth, on behalf of an Australian syndicate, for the construction of a railway on the land grant system. A land bonus of 10,000 acres per mile is to be granted. The Government is to be allowed the option of purchasing the line at half the cost price within six years. The land grants are to be in ten mile frontages. The total length of the line is about 250 miles. It is to be completed in three years. The proposal of giving shipowners a bonus of £lO for every approved immigrant brought to Queensland has been rejsoted,l