AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 206, 22 October 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

S*dnet, October 13. The advertised meeiiijg of the committee appointed at the recent public meeting, to arrange for a subscription to recoup the Evening News' fine and coats in the recent contempt case, lapsed, only three persons being present besides reporters, tt is stated iv sortie quarters that arrangements had previously been made, and cbnsedjieutly the committee did not attend, but that the subscription is proceeding. It is reported that four bodies have been washed ashore 15 miles north of B^rhiague. They are supposed to be the remains of a part y , including Mr Lawson, the Government geologist, whose, boat had .previously been founi stove-in on the beach. Great importance is attached to the recent discoveries of a gold bank at Walladilly Creek The nature of the strata and wash is believed to indicate that a new lead, following the old bed of the river, has been struck. A convict now undergoing a sentence for forgery in Darlingburet gaol, has caused the May or of Mudgee to be served with a writ for £500 damages, as compensation for in juriea sustained owing to the defective state of the road in the Borough, in 1879. Conf quest, the plaintiff, was engnged on a newsj paper at Mudgee, which he left in consequence of intemperate habits, but while there he was strolling along the street and fell into a creek, breaking his arm, whereupon he threat ; ened the Council with an action. Afterwards he went to Sydney, forged a cheque, and was sentenced to two years' hard labor. From the gaol he sent the Council aletter.claiming compensation. The application was rather hastily dismissed, and he now serves a writ, i Victoria, October 13. An exhibit of gold of the value of £150.000 will be placed in the west nave of the Exhi bition by the Bank of Australasia. The original letter book used by Governor King in 1808 has been placed in the New South Wales Court. The amount netted by the Austrian Band at Flcmington on Saturday 9th, exclusive of railway deductions, was £1020, and they give; •another performance at the same place next Saturday. At the annual meeting: of the Congregational Union, the Rev. Thomas James was elected foreman, and delivered an opening address. The Lighthouse Commissioners have decided thnt"some of the buoys in the Channel shall be lighted with gas. Nineteen players have been selected, from' which a team will be chosen to play the Australian eleven, and will commence practice . at once. All the racehorses recently arrived from other colonies have been landed safely, and are now located at Flcnrington. At a meeting of the Education Department of the Social Science Congress on Tuesday, the Bishop of Melbourne in his address, referring to religious instruction, said no system was complete -without religion, and the only effective text-book of such instruction, he believed, had been banished from our schools in a moment of haste to ge.t rid of a pressing difficulty and without any adequate appreciation of the far more terrible and enduring difficulties which the measure was sure to entail upon us ; and it must not be forgotten that so long as education was purely a secular act the child was not taught religion, and became of necessity a secularist. As to. the claims of the Catholics, he proposed that reasonable payments be made to them for such similar results tested by Government inspectors; or, if this was objected to, that facilities be afforded them for maintaining separate schools similar to the plan followed in Canada. ' John De Silva, once a leading merchant in Melbourne, was prosecuted at the Police Court to-day, for defrauding Messrs. Walsh Bros, of £150 worth of jewellery. Others are implicated in the alleged fraud. The contraband jewellery seized from passengers by the ship Renown, was found to consist of brass-plated articles on being sent to the Mint to be tested.