AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5212, 5 December 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEU TARARUA AT THE BLDFE.) Bluff, Tuesday. The Tararua brings no news of importanceThe latest date is Melbourne, November 25. It has been resolved to recognise the services of Sir Redmond Barry in connection with our public institutions, and notably the University and Public Library. The form of commemoration is left to a committee to decide. A child six years of age was burned to death yesterday iu a wooden house at Sandhurst. The Wolverine and Sapphire left the bay this morning. The Northumberland came iu 55 days from London. (PER ROTORUA AT AUCKLAND.) _ Melbourne, November 2S. Mr. Berry, in introducing a statement of the payment of members item on the Estimates, referred to the undoubted privileges of the Assembly in dealing with the question in the manner proposed. He said that the Legislative Council would have thrown out the Laud Tax Bill if it had dared, and would also throw out the Appropriation Bill if it dare but that would be the sounding of its deathknell. They would be guilty of au act Of revolution, and every, member of that Chamber who upheld them would be stigmatised as a traitor and revolutionist. However dire might be the consequences, they would be responsible for the act. There were GOO candidates at the Civil Service Examination ; 114 are ladies. At the invitation of Commodore Hoskins and officers of the Wolverene, a large party, including the Governor, assembled on board the vessels Wolverene and Sapphire. Both of these ships leave to-morrow, the former visiting Portland, en route for Sydney. The Sapphire goes to Sydney, and thence to Samoa. The Wolverene will reach Sydney about Christmas next, and will then proceed to New Zealand. A large sale of fencing wire and corrugated iron is about to take place, and owing to advices of short shipment, a rise will probably occur in prices. A fire broke out at the Victoria Hotel at Essendon. The whole of the training stables were destroyed, and the horses were got out with great difficulty, and but for the assistance of the neighbors the whole of the main building would have been burned down. A young man named Edward Stevens was:charged at the City Police Court with the embezzlement of £670 of his employer’s (W. H. Lambert) money, and was remanded. Adelaide, November 28. A frightful murder has been committed at Port Augusta. A man named Fagan split the of a man named Bonner while his victim was fast asleep. In the Assembly the Hon. Mr. Boucaut submitted his revi-ed summary of revenue and expenditure for the year ended 30th June, 1877, showing a debit balance of £16,365. There has been a sale of 20,000 bushels new wheat made, for delivery at Port Adelaide during the month of December, at from ss. to ss. Id. per bushel. The Australian cricketers, after playing at Maitland and the Hunter River, will finish their Australian engagement at Adelaide, thence take steamer to New Zealand, and return to Sydney iu February iu time for the colonial match.