AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2673, 31 October 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Telergaph.] [Per s.s. Manapouri at Russell.] SYDNEY, October 26. The immigrant ship Northampton still lies beached at La Perouse, Botany Bay, the weather having been too unfavorable to commence operations, but it is expected she will be got off in a few days, and towed into Port Jackson. The rain in Sydney since the change of weather on Friday has amounted to over three and a half inches, the greater portion of which fell during fourteen hours. The rainfall has been general throughout the country, and much benefit has resulted. At Bourke, during a severe thunderstorm, a man and horse were killed by lightning. The Parliamentary proceedings during the week is without interest. *>

Another fatal tramway accident has occurred. Eoht. Lyall, an inspector of pavements under the corporation, was ran over and killed in Elizabeth street, one of tlio most populous thoroughfares. Steps are being taken to give the Australian cricketers a fit reception. MELBOURNE, October 26. Reports of rain are received from all parts of the colony. The Nelson on arrival is to be docked, and every facility is being given by the Government. It is decided to erect a new telegraph office on the vacant site near the Post Office. It is estimated to cost jg 20,000.

Major Mebhourne has handed to the trustee of the Public Library Jpo. Batman’s Journal, giving accounts of his experiences from the time he left Tasmania to explore the territory until his return. At a meeting of miners at Ballarat it was resolved that the men employed by the Band and Albine mine should strike unless the directors abandoned the system of letting the work of stopping quartz in contract.

At an inquest concerning the death of a woman named McPhail, who was attended by Dr. Baohel, proceedings have been commenced, as there are suspicious circumstances connected with the case. ADELAIDE, October 26.

Mr Wm. Townsend, chairman of committee in the Assembly, and an old colonist, is dead.

A large employer of labor states that he does not holievo that there is a man able and willing to work out of employment. The blacks have been troublesome at Port Darwin, and speared one of the men on Briton’s plantations on the Daly River.