SYDNEY.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 61, 19 May 1877, Page 2

SYDNEY.

May 8. Per Wakatipu : — The question of payment to members is to be brought before the Victorian Parliament. Sir J. MeCulloch and Mr Irvine are strongly opposed to payment/ and trust that next .session will see the end of the experiment. The nomi n ations for the Assembly took place on the oth throughout Victoria. There are two hundred candidates for eighty-four seats. Seventy-six old members seeking re-election. It is understood that a match has been arranged between and Rush for the sculling championship of the world. It is rumored that Weld will be ap^ pointed Governor of South Australia. Captain Press, of the Barque Frederica. has been presented by the chairman of the Sugar Company with a gold watch, m recognition of his services' m bringing his vessel m a disabled state from Java to Melbourne. Sir John O'Shannassy is strongly ad--voeating free trade. . Dr Schomberg, of Adelaide, has received a sample of wheat from the Arctic regions. A sixty-ounce nugget has been found at Port Darwin. ; News f rbm the diggings continues' favourable. ' *• . AnotherWse of smallpox has occurred' at Adelaide, on board of the 'British Enterpise. Typhoid fever is- rather prevalent m» Melbourne.- "■--•■'■

The Adelaide Government are calling for volunteers for the defence of the colony. Monday. The influx of Chinese into the Northern Queensland goldfields is still increasing. Arrived — Rotorua. Sailed — Hero.