LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1406, 1 February 1873, Page 2

LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[NEW ZEAIAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Melbourne, Jan. 25. The delegates proceeded to Sydney by the mail steamer. Mr Yogel was too ill, but followed next day." Several meetings have been held, but nothing of importance is yet decided. The Education Act is working admirably. Nearly the whole of the schools have comg v within the new system. The Exhibition is finally closed. The visitors numbered 150,000, and the receips to £5000. Great dissatisfaction is expressed in reference to the awards. The lumpers at Hobson's Bay have struck ; they object to sailors loading and discharging ships. It is announced that 33,000 shares in the National Bank of New Zealand wil} shortly be offered in the colonies. The Cossack has sailed for England. She touches at the Auckland Islands. Wallis, a Melbourne bookmaker, was warned off the Melbourne race-course for two years, and expelled from Tattersall's for offering to bribe a jockey. The Hall of Commerce property in Collins street was sold for L 40,000. A boy, named Heffons, son of a contractor, lately mysteriously disappeared from a steamer on a voyage from Sydney. It is supposed he fell through the port hole. Achilles King has died in the lunatic asylum. The Italian frigate Garibaldi, with the Duke of Genoa on board, visits Melbourne in April. Three men were drowned in a mining claim at Stawell yesterday. A number of cases of drowning and fatal accidents are reported. The death of the Hon. Rev. Baptist Noel, in England, is reported by a private telegram. A private telegram to the Governor states that Gavan Duffy has been knighted. Cable messages to the Colonies are increasing. Sydney. A motion in favor of secular education was negatived. Captain Gay, of the steamer Wainui, has been committed for trial for kidnapping 130 men and seven women from Solomon Islands. The Newcastle strike continues, and is causing loss to shipowners and others. All attempts at a compromise have hitherto failed. There is a probability that work will be resumed on Monday. The Wesleyan Conference has appointed the Rev. B. Chapman General Secretary of Missions. The Legislative Assembly sat from Wednesday to Friday at daylight, fortytwo hours. Several disgraceful scenes were enacted. In Northern Queensland, provisions are at famine prices on account of floods. A proposition is raised in Adelaide for a railway to Melbourne.