AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 374, 5 July 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per City,of New Yokk at Auckunl Sydney The brig Edith Hawdon has bo wrecked on Carpenter Reef, while on t passage from Adelaide to Sydney. S was a wooden vessel, of 2G4 tons, and w commanded by Captain Rodloy, at owned in Melbourne. Her cargo of flon valued at LI 1.5, was insured in Sou Australian ollices. Mrs. Rodley at three children wei-o passengers, ami wo all lost. 1

The trotting horse Archimedes dropjx dead on Randwick road.

Tiie steamer Ballina camo into cull sion with, and sunk, the barque Sylpliklt from Portland Bay to (Sydney with cargo of bark, half a mile off Long Reel All on board were saved. The" vessi went down half-an-hour after buin struck.

A large .anti-immigration meeting In been held at Newcastle, when resolution were passed condemning the system i| immigration. An old man named Wilson has con niitted suicide by cutting his abdoiue with a razor.

The Government wanted to introdit the block system on the railways. The schooner Thomas and Henry h been lost at Nambucha Heads ; the en were saved.

Mr. Parkcs, in the Assembly, said t Government intended to submit a resol tion for the increase of the permanci artillery to three batterie: ■""'; iuiiu diate steps will be taken to pVwourc i ironclad, on the basis of Sir VV. Jervoist recommendation ; and that alteratioi and works necessary for the defence ( Port Jackson, Newcastle, and Bo tan Bay will be carried out without delay. At a meeting of 500 working men, a J solution condemning the proposed ci penditure on immigration was adopted. Meujouhnk,

The ship Nelson, from London, wci ■ashore at Brighton, hut was got oil' will out injury. Sir Win. Jervoise and Col. Scratclilc inspected the Cerberus, and were presci at successful experiments with the nc torpedo, which is declared to bo an in provement on Whitehead's.

The bai-que Planter lias been wreck at Landen Island, but all hands wet saved.

Palmer advices state that hundreds c Chinese are in the last stages of destitu tion. Hundreds more are pressing o towards the goldfields. AmcLAmE. A three months Supplyßill forL300,00! has been passed through the Assembly. The schooner Frcebridge is a total wreel at Waterhjo Bay, near Streaky Bay. 3S'< lives were lost.

HoiuitT Town. •The general elections have terminate! in a majority for Ministers.