AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 127, 29 May 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per City of New York.) Sydney, May 27. A meeting of working men at the Trades Hall resolved to take steps to testify their appreciation of the services rendered by the late Mr Mart lo the colony and the working olass. The representatives of the Borough Councils met to urge ths connection of the suburbs with the city by-railroad. A committee of the Trade and Labor Council are making arrangements for a public meeting to agitate for the suppression of Chinese immigration. At the Australasian Wesleyan Conference the Eev. W. Morley, of New Zealand, was elected one of the Secretaries to consider the amendment to the Committee's report, offering class meetings as a test of membership, and substituting as the qualification of membership a general adhesion -to Church rules. The amendment, however, was negatived, and the class meetings affirmed with the proviso that all devout per«ons who could not be persuaded to attend class meeting should be invited to partake of the sacrament receiving quarterly communicants' tickets, and to enter on the Circuit book. Melbourne, May 24. A Parliamentary Commission has been appointed to enquire into the working of the Land Act. The Government have issued a fresh proclamation prohibiting landing stock from ports outside the Australian Colonies and New Zealand. Mr Byron Moore has been appointed agent for the New Zealand Government in Victoria. Stephen Massett has arrived. Mr Frank Smith, solicitor, is missing, and is supposed to have gone to New Zealand. A warrant has been issued as it is alleged some trust estates have been tampered with. Afc Brisbane a man named Michael has been murdered by a Chinese cook. The deceased was in charge of a flock of sheep proceeding to the station. The body was horribly mutilated. There was no provocation. Adelaide, May 24. Mr Severn delivered his first lecture under the auspices of the Council of Education. Port Darwin, May 24. Captain Robinson and his brother, of the schooner Kingston.were murdered by natives while fishing off Marbiac Island. One Chinaman and a number of divers at Jardine, Cape York, were attacked by blacks, and killed.