AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 903, 22 August 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW SOUTH WALES. The Hanlon Rowing Club cf Toronto challenges Trickett to pull Hanlon. on the Paramatta River for .£2OOO and the championship of the world during the Exhibition. The challenge has been accopte.i. The stakes will be raised by public subscription. There is very general opposition to the amount of stake. Archbishop Vaughan issued a second pastoral consisting principally of opposition to the State School System, founded on Carphal Newman's recent declaration against liberalism in religion. The Uev\ Mr Jeffries and other clergy are lecturing in opposition to the Catholic claims. The present pastoral has produced little effect on ti.e public schools iu the country dis-iru-tti. ■ i'ai'kes ivjocts the ku-:fc Victorian

proposal for settlement of the Bnrd<4 Customs dispute. Tlie alleged effect of the Victorian plan would be that Victoria would beue'fit at New South Wales expense to the extent of £76,000 annually, while the latter only receives £SOO. . Windeyer; Attorney-General, has' been appointed acting judge of the Supreme Court. Robert "Wisdom, member for Morpeth; succeeds Windeyer. His accession strengthens the Ministry. ; In the event of Layco'ck' 'boating Trickett, Mr Punch will take ; Laycock to America to row Hanlbu, ""* The Hawkeshury spring meeting was well attende,d, the weather beiug splendid. The Hawkesbuiy Handicap 1 was a genuine surprise. Kinsmans haped so badly a few mornings before that his owner's friends refrained from backing him for a shilling. Kinsman's victory placed him at the head of the betting for the Metropolitan. He is also supported for the Melbourne cup, and Secuudus is heavily backed at 100 to 50. . Floods in several districts have occasioned heavy loss. Very heavy snowstorms have occurred in the Hunter and Bathurst districts. The English subscribers ,to the N.W.S. loan have already paid up over £2,530,000, some preferring not to wait until the instalments ate due.

The "New Zealand and other Colonial courts in the ethibitibn are being filled up.