AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2696, 28 November 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by teleqkaph.]

[Per steamer at the Bluff.]

MELBOURNE, November 21

The English cricket team proceed up country to-morrow (Sunday). On Monday they will be the guests of W. J. Clark, Eupertswood, previous to going on to Sydney. A determined attempt at suicide was made by Margaret Burgess on Saturday last. She threw herself in the Yarra, and Constable McKenzie succeeded in rescuing her.

A man, unknown, was found with his throat cut in Albert Park. It is supposed to be a case of suicide.

A youth named Moore, sent to the bank with a deposit by his employer, Henderson, of Lonsdale street, paid in £l5O in notes and cheques, and kept £66 in gold. He gave himself up to the police on Saturday, and was remanded.

The manager of the Commercial Bank of Heathcoto was driving between Heathcote and Sandhurst on Friday, when a man hailed him and pulled him from the buggy, and struck him violently, rendering him insensible, and rifled his pockets, but overlooked .£3OO in bullion, which was in the buggy, also eleven hundred unsigned Bank notes.

On Friday night an extremely brilliant aurora was visible. The firemen turned out believing it was a large fire. The Victorian Rifle Association meeting at Williamstown commences to-day. Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania teams take part in an intercolonial match. SYDNE Y, November 21.

The Executive Council have decided in the case of Dunn, sentenced to death for arson in connection with the fire by which Mrs Wright lost her life, to commute it to hard labor for life. The first three years shall be passed in irons. The Australian eleven arrived on Saturday, and were warmly welcomed. Works are proceeding to raise the Austral. The divers are still employed closing all apertures. The wharf laborers’ strike still continues, eausinggroat inconvenience to shipping interests. The trustees of the Art Gallery purchased Leighton’s picture “Wedded,” exhibited this year in the Academy. BRISBANE, November 21.

The steamerDevonshirearrivedatßundabergonPriday withanumber of Cingalese on board. About sixty Europeans attempted to oppose their landing, and the Coolies drew knives and the white men ran away. Afterwards the Europeans forced the Natives to leave off work. One Coolie and a white ringleader were arrested and affairs became quieter. A Coolie meeting is ar-x-anged to take place in Rockhampton. ADELAIDE, November 21.

The Nairne railway strike is virtually ended. Some hundreds of men have returned to work. The laborers’ strike at Port Adelaide is also nearly over. All employers, except the South Australian Stevedore Company, acceded to the terms demanded. A man named Buxton, who was missing in Border Town for some days, was found in a water-hole in the centre of the town, fx’om which the principal water supply was drawn.

[Per s.s. Wairarapa at Auckland.] SYDNEY, November 23. The new House will meet before the end of the year. The Austral inquest has closed without anything satisfactory being elicited as to the cause of the disaster. The captain, chief officer, and chief engineer have failed to account for the accident, but the jury in their verdict found that they had been guilty of negligence in omitting to take proper precautions, as the whole operation of coaling was loft to the supervision of the lamp trimmer, who was on duty as a watchman from 6 p.m. to G a.m. Previous warnings had been given of the ship being tender, and of her listing, but they were unheeded. During a terrific thunderstorm, a house at Woolloomoloo was struck by lightning. The dinner to the Australian cricketers was a great success, and was largely attended.

MELBOURNE, November 23,

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly has received a letter from General Hutchison, submitting proposals for the improvement of the Victorian submarine defences.

Ogle, the solicitor’s clerk who was brought from England, has been committed for trial.

At the Presbyterian General' Assembly the Kev. Murdoch McDonald’s resolution approving of the proposed Declaratory Act on the confession of faith was carried after a protracted discussion, but the form of its adoption was deferred, pending the anticipated union of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia.

The Pilot Board found that the pilot in charge of the ship Genge Thompson was guilty of an error of judgment re the stranding of the ship at the Heads. ADELAIDE, November 23. Mr Malcolm has chartered a vessel to bring 100 ostriches from South Africa.