AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Pers.s. Rotdmahana-, via Russell.]
NEW SOUTH WALES. Considerable discussion ensued yesterday in the Legislative Council on a Bill to appropriate church and school lands exclusively for educational purposes. The objection was made thiit many of the Anglican clergy depended on a proportion of the revenue derived from these lands for decent stipends. The debate was adjourned. In the Assembly, Mr Brown, on the re-corhiriittal of the Electoral Bill, introduced a clause requiring candidates to make a money order deposit. He consented to modify his original proposition by the substitution of £4O to £SO. After an aciirh onions debate; this was carried by 19 to 18. The Assembly has voted £385,379 as a temporary, supply; Attempts to elicit a statement of the financial policy were successfully resisted by the Treasurer. VICTORIA. It is said that the police have surrounded the Kellys’ inaccessible position near Ging River, but that aS 100 armed men could not get at them, the only way is to statve them out. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The telephone system is to be introduced into the colony. The receipts of the land sales in April were £82,000. Gazette returns show that oyer 100 Chinese died in the Northern Territory in three months, on whom no inquests were held.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1145, 31 May 1880, Page 2
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