AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[press agency.]
Auckland, August 19. The steamer Australia arrived at midnight. Khe left Sjdney on the lt»th inat. Most of the news has been anticipated by the Arawata. Sydney, August 15. Walker, a German trader,. has been committed for trial for absconding with .£I2OO, belonging to his creditors.
In the Victoria Legislative Council Mr Slade has given notice to move a »ew clause in the Reform Bill to reduce the no qualification for members to freehold property to the value of £125, instead of £350. •
Mr Anderson has given notice that the numlvor of members be 40 and the Provinces be increased to eighty. Adelaide, August 14. Mr Boucaut mores that the land tax be sixpence in the pound. The annual value of the readjustment of the Customs duties e usu-'S immediately. lae ivapunda Babbit Preserving Company shipped 42,000 pounds of rabbit flesh by the Cuzco, and sends 61,000 pounds by the Aconcagua.
Brisbane, August 14. Good gold prospects are repotted from the Palmer diggings.
NEW CALEDONIA
The New Caledonia own correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald says the total number of victims known to have been massacred is close upon 150. Thirty-two dead bodies of the Kanakas have been found; everyone died of gun-shot wound*’.
The latest news is that a detachment of infantry surprised the rebels at a village named Ambo, killed 20, and then burnt the village and a considerable quantity of provisions, ere., in this encounter. A second column of soldiers who approached on the other side by night were, by mistake, fired upon by their comrades, fortunately without any injurious result eve, the error was discovered.
It is reported that the insurgents are becoming hard up for provisions, as must of course be the case, they having no means of stowing any quantity of food, even if they possessed it. There is nothing farther from the revolted districts.
The other parts of the island are perfectly quiet, except on the native land at Poya, north of Bourail. The weather continues very hot.
The settlers look forward to another hard summer, it plentiful rains do not soon come.
Official information has been received that troops will arrive troin France and Cochin China.
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Kumara Times, Issue 592, 20 August 1878, Page 2
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