AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 205, 21 October 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Mi-LBOOENI., Oct. 12. The payments for admission to the Exhibition during the past week averaged about 8000 daily, except on Saturday, when they exceeded 7000, notwithstanding the counter attraction of the Strauss Band at the Plemington racecourse. Many Courts are still busy preparing, but, as the admission of exhibits is now stopped, it ia expected all will be completed at an early date. Complaintsare made in connection with the refreshment coutracte; the supply and catering generally are far from giving satisfaction. Aboui. 7000 cards were issued to the conversozione on Thursday uight in the Exhibition Building. A formal protest was made by the Foreign Commissioners against lighting up the Exhibition. The British Fine Art Gallery has already been closed. The proposed naVal and military display has been modified, and it is now decided to hold a review on the Flemington racecourse on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. The Racing Club gives the use of the ground free, and it is expected 4000 milicaryj volunteers, blue jackets, and marines of ttiG ships of war will take part. Tbe Exhibition Commissioners notify that any exhibitors selling goods in the building or on the ground will forfeit their rights as exhibitors. A largo number of spectators gathered at flemington on Saturday, including the Governor, family, and suite, to hear the performance of the Austrian band, the assembly altogether composing fifteen thousand persons. Only 47 performers were in the band, and some had scarcely recovered the effects of the sea voyage, but tbe performance showed a combination of very high order, and their performance at the Town Hall was numerously attended. The leader of the band, Baron Alcvis F. Wildwer, stands high in the musical world. He- waa fifteen years senior professor of tho Leipsi Cohservittoire of Music. Tho Frenchman named Boiltor, who^e jewellery was seized, interviewed the Commissioner of Customs on Thursday, declaring his ignorance ot the laws of the colony, arid promising a satisfactory explanation. The Commissioner afterwards wrote to JBdiltofr, asking if he would allow him (Mr Clarke) to decide the matter. Boiltor agreeing, Mr Clarke decided to fiae biirflhree times the value of the jewellery. A second seizure of smuggled jewellery was made on Saturday, when a packet valued at- £SO was discovered in a keg of fat on the wharf. The Commissioner auain fined the smuggler, a steward on board a coasting steamer, three times the value of the jewellery. Again a third seizure was made yesterday, when jewellery valued at £50 was discovered among the effects of |a passenger per ship Renown, just arrived from England. The burglar, who entered the Government House last month and stole £150 worth of jewellery, the property of Miss Robinson, Mrs Finlay, and Mrs St. John, has been captured. Suspicion fell upon a well-known old English burglar named Barnes, who had served a sentence in Australia, aud his naovemeuts being watched he decamped to Sydney, where the police arrested bim, and many articles of jewellery were recovered. Adelaide. All the cargo of the Sorata which it i_ possible to recover has now been taken out> and only a quantity of galvanised iron, and other heavy material, remains. Workmen are now uncovering the flooring with the object of constructing a false bottom so as to make her watertight, and then a final attempt will be probably made to float the vessel. The Marine Board have urged ah early commencement of the Sorata enquiry, and instructed the secretary to confer with the Government Solicitor on the subject, j The Conflict hasarrived at Cooktown, and brings information from New Guinea missionary teachers and natives wbich confirms the report of the recent massacre, The natives refused to give up the heads of the slain Chinamen.