Australian NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1349, 27 January 1881, Page 2

Australian NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] January 17. In the Assembly/ Mr Buchanan moved the second reading of the Matrir monial Causes Act Amendment Bill which is similar-to the Divorce Bill which .previously received sanction of the New South Wales and on three different occasions had been sent to England, though for the Royal assehfe The only difference found in the' present, compared with the previous Bills, was it's'restrictions to persons domiciled in the colony, which he .had in.order to meet the objections, of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who notified if the rei striction was adopted he would: advise Her Majesty to give her assent. The second reading was agreed to on'a'dmsion of forty to fourteen; ' Reports received from the country state that the drought' has broken. The dams at Botany are unaffected to any extent. Fears which have been entertained by Sydney and Melbourne friends of Clarson, who is on a sketching tour for the Illustrated Sydney News and several European papers, have'been pet at rest]

by his safe Queensland after ah absence 9? seventeen weeks. . January 17. •, At-the B6rrfai)U T briquet, Mr Lang l that" the GoVerrimerit had been met witH difficulties, and had not had fair play in their endeavour to carry B'dt a system of retrenchment. Major S'ritUh responded; ana fo obtain one nlore Wan in EJftglgifd, after which Victoria. dtt hSr 1 b*w'n Tesoufce^r""""*"'""""•' "-*"*'• \ Richard Ha.-L broker to the bulla vr; Has beed for highway robbery: . A boy of_ fifteen was arrested at ■Sbergtiiiw!, forVhoot'irig'a 'of'Thjrteen, and wounding her. *J ' The preset harvest are not So~gsod as last yefc : Legal* the" ; Aiistrlatt ! ■T«nb^B At a bttn"'{Jue¥ a(WaWnam , Smith, in responding- for ment, said he believ&Hhev ppesenft Gb> verhment ■'.".• esteem, and? do'nfidende "6f« more particularly moderate peoftistf die believed the cdloiiy a season of unprecedehte'd;pVo^aii^i! Phillips, one of Leichardt'4 60m* panion's-ih tbe'firati expetlitibo, is living in seclusion-at .theflhead of Diamond Creek,'QueensJhnirijT Skuthorpe from* -BttfelMl station, and sends 5 letters with lara by mail of journals" relics having been forwarded for j lkfc&r > including Laiphardt's* and <Hafli3ft journals of Leichardt's whole trtjUf Mtti being in a good; Btate of preseroltSfibj also the telescope with the engraving, compasses, and The diary of Olassan is to th"e"feeee'fc that he left Leichardt at ; SattwaSSer Creek, while he searched for watetf&fid on' returning he found tbs He then joined the blacks, with whom he lived till three 'years ago; SkutiJorpe will not allow any <dhe to h relics at Blackall. .A I ' The Queensland Insurance Compartyfe dividend .fee) JiQ.^er:'. cent., and will be carried forward, ..■■