AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 29 January 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Per Rotorua at the Bluff ] Melbourne. An influential meeting of Scotchmen was held lo initiate a fund for the relief of the shareholders impoverished by the City of Glasgow B-.vnk failure. A. strong committee was appointed with Sir James McCulloch as Chairman to collect subscriptions. A Queensland exploiing party has arrived at Powell's Crtek, all well. They rpport the country very dry, little rain having fallen for two years. Seven horses had died from want of water. They say a good Hue exists for railway purposes. Major Smith in opening the new State school at Sandhurst intimated that the Go vernment purposed dispensing with the services of unclassed teachers, and were considering the bist means of establishing Suite schools saving hanks. A Victorian anti Chinese association has been formed, its object being the restriction, and, if necessary, the complete prohibition of Chinese immigration to the colony, an<l !he absolute discontinuance of trade aud traffic wiih the Chinese already here. The. question of want of employment is ngain cropping up an I a memorial is being signed l>y the working men for presentation I to the Government asking the Executive to I throw o;>en more public works. A gentleman named T ravers of Queensland, has been murdered by the Northern territory natives while travelling with siock. A large body of police has just returned from an unsuccessful search for the Kellys. A very unhealthy sympathy with the Kelly gang prevails through the Beechworth District. A railway porter at the Hobson'sßay line, named Albert Anthony, was accidentally run over by a train at Prahan. He received J terrible iujuries to bis feet and legs which were nearly severed, necessitating the amputation of both legs. He died after lingering in great agony. A woman named Summers, a mother of a family, was accidentally run over by a train on the Stawell and Horsham line and killed, her head and right arm being severed from the body. Deceased was crossing the line in a wagonette, and could not get out between the rails, and the approaching train ran into tram, and Mrs Summers was thrown oil the rails and run over,