AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2672, 30 October 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

By Telegraph. If Per s.s.'Te Anau.at the Bluff.] MELBOUME, October 24. Sunday last was Hospital Sunday, and the collections made in all the churches amounted to over ,£4200. The ball at Government House in the Cup week, to which 3000 guests had been invited, has been postponed on account of the death of the Dowager Marchioness Normanby. At the City Police Court on Friday, Patrick Ryan, on remand since the Ist, was charged with horse stealing in New Zealand. He was charged in company with his wife and daughter. He was an absconding bankrupt from Timaru. A detective has arrived from New Zealand, and the prisoner will probably be remanded there. It is expected, that about IuOO firemen from Victoria will take part in the fire brigade demonstration at Sydney on the 9th of November. The Victorian Government have agreed to grant free passes, but the New South Wales Government only allow them to travel at exeux - - eion rates.

A number of gentlemen, among whom were many of the wine jurors at the late Melbourne Exhibition, met at the Exhibition buildings on Saturday to ascertain how the Victorian wine which had been to Bordeaux and back had stood the journey. Every sample was found to be improved by the voyage, the white wines more so than the red. SYDNEY, October 24.

The ship Northampton went ashore on Satxuday. The vessel struck the rocks near Point Hacking during a fog on Friday nighh She got off but it was found that she was leaking, and all hands were at the pumps during the night. After firing rockets for an hour the steamers Dairymaid and Civility piloted her into Botany Bay, where she was beached in eighteen feet of water. All the immigrants, numbering 370, were brought safely to Sydney on Sunday. One immigrant broke his leg in trying to get on to the steamer. It is hoped that the ship will soon be got off again.