LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1370, 19 December 1872, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■'• • —^ — [NEW ZEALAND PKESB ASSOCUTION,]

Melbourne, Dec. 12. . The conflict between the two Houses has been settled, the Council giving way, and the Education Bill has now been passed as it originally left the Legislative Assembly. In the Diseases in Stock Bill the Council also gave way. The Bill to increase the Judges salaries by LSOO each was strongly opposed by a small faction in the Assembly, The House sat till seven o'clock this morning, and the Bill was eventually passed. The prorogation is fixed for next Tuesday. A New Zealand despatch relative to the mail service has been forwarded to Sydney. A reply has been received from Commodore Stirling, declining the Victorian offer of assistance in the South Seas. Mr !Kane, Secretary of the Board of Education, died hut Sunday. The schooner.. Eatheraw has been wrecked -at Queen's Island. The crew were, saved. She was insured in the Derwgn* office. The" Bangalore with the English mails .left Galle on, 26th of November. -She v expected in Melbourne next Sunday or < Mfcftay. The Hero sails to-day from Sydney for Auckland. The overland telegraph line is again interrupted, and has been so since yesterday. A. heavy thunderstorm, which occurred this morning, interrupted telegraphic communication with Sydney and Adelaide. At the meeting of the Chambei of Commerce resolutions were passed in favor of the Suez mail route, and commending the, prompt action of the Government in, reference to the Imperial offer.. The advisability of establishing communication with America was, however, admitted. A public meeting has been held in referencejto sending the men kidnapped by the Cml to their respective homes. Adepuifcattbn waited on the Government on the subject*' They that it was more an Imperial than a Colonial obligation, and declined to act without Imperial sanction. A huge fire occurred this morning in Hunter street, Newcastle, by which the School ' of Arts reading-room, Gardner's bonded store, and several other buildings were destroyed. The Presbyterian Church narrowly escaped injury. The Chief Justice of South Australia has been sworn in Acting-Governor. Some of the Adelaide fields will yield thirty bushels of wheat per acre. The locusts have not much affected the crops.

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