AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6500, 27 December 1881, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Pw Pusss Association.] (Per as. Bingarooma, vii tho Bluff.) VICTORIA. Mklsootns, Dec, 20. Mr Praacls Ormond, the donor of £95,000 to Cm Anglican Cathedral fond, also rives £SOOO for tha establishment of a Working Man's College. Tho snm iff £7OOO Is etui deficient before Mr Ormond's rift towards tisw Cathedral fund can be claimed at the cod of the year. The Bishop it making strong efforts to secore the amount. A female go-as-you-please contest has been stamped by the police; the Msgistratee re* foMdito iKcense the buSdiog.. The dispute between Professors Sikingtoo and Hasson has been amicably settled. The Proto* takes Home SSOO £nm sheep. A sentence of ten years, passed on a lam* kia tor assault, by Justice Williams, is highly gw|. The earnest of the Old English Payee is unabated, and the projectors nave netted a «nmThe Auckland built yacht-Tsaiwha won a ffn&rclase race for a fifty guinea cup on Saturday, beating all the Victorian built Stiinningdale 'is scratched for the Champion IBAies. There is no betting on tbs event. There are very good entries for the Chuff* Arid meeting on Boxing Day. The agitatim for Sunday trains has beam renewed, but without present sececas. Scary rain has faUcs all over the Colony darittf the last two days. At a meeting of the Council of the Dal* Tctrity yesterday, Professor ElMogton wao eospendod Emm his duties sod emoluments for a month, end Professor Hanson was fined £3O. This was instead of the previous punishment proposed to be inflicted. NEW BOOTH WALES. Bespecting the massacre of the crew of the odEwoner Label, al bento Island, where the affives ere emasbah, it appears that they made » feast of the crew, all the remains being caslded, scraped, and got ready for cooking. As Sir 8. Parkes* visit to England and America will be semi-offirial, the opinion is cmmnd that he should have an allowance.' A rich deposit of alluvial gold bn* been fond nix miles from ArundcL One miner get Ulib weight of gold in five days.