AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 789, 10 April 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PER AUSTRALIA, AT AUCKLAND,

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, April 7. The s.s. Australia left Sydney for Auckland on March 27, and brings news to April 1.

Melbourne, April 1. Parliament is prorogued until 23rd of May.

Dissatisfaction is expressed at the Minister of Railways directing hundreds of men to work last Sunday to prepare the Oakleigh opening on the 2nd April. Woods alleges necessity as an excuse. Edward Monks has received another letter from Kelly sympathisers threatening his life.

The Sydney police subscribed hand* somely to the murdered police fund. Intelligence has been received that an English vessel, name unknown, bound to Australia from England, went ashore in December at Terra del Fuego, and was attacked by Indians, The crew were rescued by a Chilian corvette. Mr W. J, Clarke has been presented with a handsomely illuminated address signed by the whole of the agricultural and pastoral societies of the Colony, expressive of the esteem and appreciation of the agiacultural community. The Marquis of -Normanby, in presenting it, remarked r 11 , other wealthy colonists would follow Mr Clarke’s example, jealousy and envy would be allayed, and Victoria would

become a happy and prosperous nation. Mr Olarke replied urging the establishment of an agricultural college. Thd Sandhurst Industrial Exhibition was Opened with great ceremony bv the Governor. There .were 1174 juvenile exhibitors and 51.8 adults. It is estimated that 20,000 articles are sliown representing a value of £IOO,OOO. Queensland, Tasmania', and Fiji contributed. The barque Suffolk, bound from Portland td Sydney Was abandoned at Wilson’s Prdrao'natdry* having lost her rudder in a liigh sea. The Harbor Trust refuses to pay Wright and Orr £SOOO for an old dock site on the Yarra. so the quarrel prodeeds.

The Secretary of the China P'amino Relief Committee at Shanghai recognises the “exceeding generosity’’ of the Victorian Colonies in forwarding £400(3j and states that the famine is over.

Kimpton’s flour mills at B’itzroy were destroyed by fire. The buildings and stock were insured for £4ooq ; damage, £6ooo*

Subnet, March 21. The Assembly have agreed to permit £735,000, due by the Sydney Corporation to the Government* to stand over, leaving the Council to provide httlf a million due to other creditors.

A three million Iddii will be placed on the market after Easter.

The Election Qualification Committee have decided that Fitzpatrick is entitled to retain his seat, notwithstanding he is a pensioner of the Crown.

Upwards of 23,000 more bales of wool were received at Sydney this year than last owing to the increased facilities for transmission from the interior 1 .

Lalors proposal for the border arrangement, Victoria to give Sydney £50,000 and repeal the stock tax, is riot acceptable. The agents of the San Francisco service have arranged that passengers., with through tickets may stop at Auckland, Honolulu,, or America, from one to six months.

The Exhibition building Is progressing rapidly. The doiiie is the largest in- tine Southern Hemisphere, the circumference at the base beitlg 180 ft, and height 220 ft The Government has reserved*eighteen thousand acres at Port Hocking, eleven miles from Sydney, for a national park , it is a lovely situation.

AnfiiAlriß-, March 31. Parliament.is prorogued to the 6th of May. • - -. ’The-: Batavian Government refuse to accept a suggestion for further convienciea for the transit of cable messages, units higher rates are allowed. 'The Agricultural Society asks the G vernment to offer a reward of £4OOO for a red rust specific. The Germans propose to present the Emperor William with a piece of plate on his golden wedding. The Government are proceeding against, on English firm for supplying defective railway iron.

Brirbane, March 31. The Hon. W. P. Bell is appointed President of the Legislative Council. Police officers Kaye and Gough, reported to have died from thirst in iha back country have returned safely: One trooper and a black tracker and sixteen horses died.

Perth, March SI, More wrecks are reported through the hurricanes in the north. The Carelton s.nd Selina, the American barque Mattervam, and the Steamer Vice-Admiral Pabeus are Mentioned.

It is probable a company will be floated in London to run steamers from Freemantle to Singapore. The harvest averaged twelve bushels pet acre s