AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2716, 22 December 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

[eeuter’s telegrams.]

Received December 21st, 10.10 p.m.

MELBOURNE, December 21

Subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers hy the] Australasian Mine disaster at Creswiek amount to .£14,750. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, catalogued 3200 hales at their wool sale to-day, and sold 2700 at satisfactory prices. The competition was very brisk, fine sorts being in very good demand. There was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. Received December 22nd, 0.5 a.m.

MELBOURNE, December 21,

Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned this evening till February 14th for the Christmas holidays. The inquest into the circumstances under which Mr Thomas was killed at the recent railway accident at Hawthorne was concluded to-day. The verdict of the jury is to the effect that the fatality was caused by the culpable negligence of the station-master, Thompson, of Hawthorn, and Guard Hunt, who was in charge of the special train hy which the deceased was a passenger, and both were arrested on a charge of manslaughter; bail, however, was allowed in the case of each prisoner. The jury added two riders to the verdict; in the first they expressed the opinion that the evidence adduced at the inquest showed great lack of or ganisation and discipline to exist in the railway department, and advised the appointment of a permanent head to the department ; the second urging the imperative necessity for employing continuous brakes to all the trains without delay. Received December 21st, 10.10 p.m.

SYDNEY, December 21. Sailed, this afternoon—Union Company’s steamship Te Anau, for Auckland.

The last of the elections to the New South Wales Parliament was concluded to-day. The Parkes Ministry are in a minority of eighty-five members, who have declared themselves opposed to the principles of the Land Bill, which was rejected on a motion for its second reading on the 16th November. It is believed that the Government will resign before the reassembling of Parliament, which is fixed for the 3rd proximo. Received December 21st, 3.15 p.m. ALBANY, December 21.

The P. and O. Company’s steamship Ballarat, with the Suez mail dated London, 17th November, arrived at King George’s Sound this morning.