AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1115, 27 April 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Per 5.3. Wakitipu, via Wellington.] NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 14. The. Legislative Council finally passed the Education Bill yesternight, after recommittal. For the recent extraordinary assault on a bailiff, killing his horse, and assaulting the landlady who sheltered him, at Alburnia, James Carey, was sentenced to seven years’ and Owen Carey, to three years’ imprisonment. The Exhibition begins to look very bare, in consequence of the closing of several of the courts, and the sale of exhibits from others. VICTORIA. The New South Wales and Victorian racing crews were entertained by the Mayor. Mr Black, the Inspector of Bailiffs, dismissed by the Berry Government, has been reinstated.

A deputation from the Exhibition Commissioners has represented to the Government that the gross expenses will be £320,000, of which £70,000 are expected to be recouped. Mr Service said that the Government felt bound to pull the Committee through, and consented that the full amount asked should be granted.

The Cabinet have resolved to support Mr Thomas Cooper’s candidature for the Chairmanship of Committees, against Mr-Cauasoih, Madame Curlotta Patti was serenaded yesternight. The death of Archdeacon Innes, which took place at Hamilton on the 9th inst., from diphtheria, created a . profound sensation. The deceased gentleman had taken a very active part in promoting the Easter picnic of Sunday School children to the Negietti Fall, on the Wannon, and the mystery about the affair is that within four or five days afterwards eleven persons, all or nearly all of whom had attended the picnic, were struck down with diphtheria. The Archdeacon’s case resisted all theefforts of four medical men, and after six days of intense suffering, borne with great courage and patience, he succumbed to the malady. A young lady, aged fourteen, the daughter of a local solicitor, also died from the epidemic, and there one other girl in a critical condition. The four patients in the fever ward of the hospital are recovering, and the rest of the cases are believed not to be serious. QUEENSLAND. At Mackay, Pilot Langford was drowned through his boat capsizing. Two men have been arrested at Kilcoy on charges of causing serious injury to a black gin by exploding a tin of gunpowder in her hut. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Eight hundred pounds have been raised; towards the relief of the Silesian famine. ~- J^