AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5357, 29 May 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(I’ER buy'Oß NEW YORK AT AUCKLAND). Sydney, May 24. At a meeting of working men held at the Trades Hall, it was resolved to taka steps to testify their appreciatiou of the services rendered by the late Mr. Mort to the colony and the working classes. The representatives of borough councils met to urge the connection of the suburbs with the city by railroad. The committee of the Trade and Labor Council are making arrangements fora public meeting to agitate for the suppression of Chinese immigration. At the Australian Wesleyan Conference the Rev. W. Morley, of New Zealand, was elected one of the secretaries. He moved an amendment to the committee’s report affirming class meetings as a test of membership, and substituting as the qualification of membership general adhesion to Church rules. The amendment, however, was negatived, and class mootings affirmed, with a proviso that all devout persons who could not bo persuaded to attend class meetings should bo invited to partake of the sacrament, receiving quarterly communicant’s tickets, and bo entered on the circuit book. ■ ■ ■ Melbourne, May 21. A Parliamentary Commission has been appointed to inquire into the working of the Land Act. : The Government has issued a fresh proclamation prohibiting the landing of Block from ports outside the Australian colonies and New Zealand. ■ In the Alexandra scuttling case the jury disagreed. ■ ' Byron Moore has been appointed agent of the New Zealand Government in Victoria. Stephen MaascU has arrived.

Frank Smith, solicitor, is missing, and is supposed to hare gone to New Zealand. A warrant has been issued, as it is alleged that some trust estates have been tampered with. Bwsbakk, May 24. A man named M. Michael, has been murdered, by a Chinese cook, t:The deceased was in charge of a flocks-ofvsbeop, and was proceeding to the station. The'body is terribly mutilated. There seems ito.■ have been no provocation.

■ . Adelaide, May 24. Mr. Severn delivered his first lecture under the auspices of the Council of Education. - Pom Dabwin, May 24. Captain llobluson and his brother, belonging to the schooner Kingston, have been mur- • dered by natives while fishing off Marbiac Island. ; i One Chinaman and a' number of .drivers at Jardihe, Cape York, who were attacked by blacks, were forewarned, and killed seventeen blacks in a bedroom. - -