AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 159, 3 July 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Wakatipu.)

_ Brisbane, June 27. _An extraordinary meteor with a head as arge as ; the sun and a tail of immense length passed over Georgetown and burst like a hundred rockets.

Newcastle, June 27. Sam Howard's New Zealand Combination Troupe is doing well here.

Stdnet, June 27. A woman Darned Mary Padbury was picked up by the police in the street at tha back of the Town Hall about 5 p.m. with a wound on her head, a broken elbow, and other severe injuries. She said her sister had thrown her out of a window twenty feet from the ground. Adelaide, June 27. A man named Astley who had been sentenced to death in Victoria, but had his sentence commuted to 20 years, having served bis time, was convicted of forgery three days after his arrival here and sentenced to seven years. Melbourne, June 27. The Government will have to contract a new loan for the purchase of the Hobson's Bay railway and the construction of other lines. The price of the former is £1,320,000 A number of reductions are being made in the public service by the superannuation of old officers. It is rumored that the Governor has received a despatch by the last mail in which his action is not altogether approved by the Secretary of State. A nugget has been found, by a Chinaman on private property weighing four hundred ounces. A movement has baen started for the formation of an Infant Asylum to prevent infanticide and baby farming. Gentles, the owner and rider of Selector, was killed while riding a steeplechase. Mr T. B. Payne, of South Yarra, has given £1000 to Trinity College for the foundation of a scholarship. Intelligence has been received from the scene of the wreck of the Loch Ard that much cargo is being recovered and that it is intended to work from the seaward as ioon as boats are procured. Thomas Pearce has been presented with the Humane Society's gold medal. The Press is urging the Government to send a vessel to the scene of the Loch Ard disaster in hopes that survivors may yet be found in the numerous caves on {the coast which are only approachable from the sea. It is thought that the Government intend to remove the prohibition on imported stock. A lighthouse is to be erected in Currie Harbor, King's Island, to cost £105,000.