AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 199, 24 May 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

, The following news is to hand per s.n s. Easby :

Sydney, May 11. Mr Henry Parkes, the Premier, is too.ill ta attend in: his place in the onse.. ''.'■-.

Adelaide, May 11. The Government, acting upon the. advice of Sir William Jervois has telegraphed Home for a supply of Marfcini-Henry Rifles, to come out by the mail: The country districts are taking up the Volunteer movement. At a meeting held in the Town Hall, resolutions strongly in favor of placing the Colony in a position to defend itself : and in favor; of the formation of a Volunteer Force, were enthusiastically ' carried. A writ of injunction has been granted -on behalf of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone to restrain Messrs Frearton Bros, from infringing plaintiff's copyright to a pamplet on the Bulgarian horrors. * The Government has telegraphed to the War Office for the assistance of an officer Of Royal Engineers or Artillery to command the forces here. Seven shillings and eleven pence has been offered and refused for wheat. ; The Exhibition Commissioners will ask the Government for £2500 to secure the Colony being represented at ..the Paris Exhibition of 1878. Melbourne, May 11. ,The premier has arranged with* the AgenfcGeneral for the transmission of . a weekly message on the position of afiairs in Europe. This, In conjunction ' with the Agents-General bf the other Colonies, who mostly acquiesced in the , arrangement,: will be despatched.in the : first instance to Adelaide, ; and thence immediately to the. other Colonies. The ship Erato, on the passage from < iX)ndon^feUih i witJi'a,dere^t j vesseL