AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1092, 31 March 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

: +- VICTORIA. It is repotted that Ned Kelly was seen purchasing provisions from a store hear Glen Gowan on the 15tli instant. The secret was unwittingly revealed by a little girl. ,; The London representatives of P. SloAnC, and Co., of Melbourne, telegraph that they propose joining Mr MTlraith, of Queensland, in promoting a n'eW Company for importing frozen hl’eat. Capital £60,000 in JlG.shares, it is expected that Australia will subscribe the b\ilk of the capital. Cuthbert, was 'elected for the South Western Province With out opposition. The Victorian Government have purchased a rare collection of South S‘ea Island cririosities, gathered by the late Mr Price, of Sydney. NEW SOUTH WALES. Brc&dhurst, secretary oif the Trades* Union Conference in London, • warns the Australian Working class against the bijifef fix the principle of protection. The Custom anthorities have given the. Ghandernagore a clearance for Liverpook The promoters applied to the British Government fpy. permission to establish a free colony in a new part of Australia, but were refused. The Newcastle minefs are to concede tb a reduction'in price, but only in accordance with a sliding scale.