AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 804, 29 April 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PER ARAWATA, AT THE BLUFF.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Melbourne, April 23. The Marquis of Normanby’a Commission has arrived.

Lalor is preparing a regulation to faciliate the exchange of goods across the South Australia border free of duty. The P. and O. Company intend to issue special return tickets to the Colonies covering a visit of over three months commencing in May next in connection with the Australian Exhibitions.

The Government paid the Melbourne shareholders in the Hobson’s Bay Railway three hundred thousand. W. J. Clarke received a cheque of over ninetytwo thousand, ,

Lady Normandy’s health is almost restored. Her first reception was very largely attended.

The Yicforia - Insurance Company, upwards of 20 years established, is to realise the assets nearly a quarter of a million to di”ide pro rata amongst the shareholders of the Company. One hundred thousand £lO shares are proposed, sixty thousand shares to he issued to New Zealand and other colonies. The old company is to be dissolved on June 30lh next.

The National Bank declared a dividend of twelve and a half; net profits for the half-year. The ten remaining Kelly sympathisers were discharged at Beechworth, after four months detention.

Herbert Power, of Melbourne, is the largest winner at Randwick, receiving nearly £I2OO.

At the annual commemoration of the University, the undergraduates were so disorderly that they will probably be excluded next yearSydney, April 24. It is reported the Government will issue a three or four million loan in London on Ist May. The Council decided to read the Chinese Bill a second time six months hence, by a majority of fourteen. Kush asserts that lie won the boat race, and is so dissatisfied With the judge's decision, that he intends to retire from aquatics. The Hatfield bushrangers are Sentenced to death, Gorman, the ringleader without hope or mercy. Morris, of Auckland, won the second prize in the Durham Bulls class, with Lord Hastings, at the Agricultural Show at Sydney,