AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 429, 12 September 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Peii Claud Hamilton at llokitika.) Mkmjouiink. The Land Tax Bill inlr< dm id into tin Assembly provides for the appointment <i three Commissioners to act as a Courl with summary jurisdiction ; nl«o for the appointment of classifiers. Tho second reading of the Bill was carried by a large majority. The Roman Catholic* all over tlifl country are petitioning against t;ic Education Bill. Owing to a decision of tho Supreme Coiut, that aj point mints t'» the Harbour Trust made ly tho Govcxrior-in-Counoi

are illegal, the whole of the past proceedings of the Boord are invalidated, and require a special act. There was a heavy rainfall at the end of last week, but it is still insufficient. The small-pux patients will be released on Saturday. A fatal omnibus accident has taken place. The springs broke, and the horses bolted. A barmaid named Sarah M'Evoy was killed while jumping out. Creswick is drawing well at the Academy of Music. Charles Pope, an American actor, appears at the Royal shortly. Business is still very dull, but is likely soon to improve. The rupture in Adelaide between Sir Haynes and the Council still continues, and causing a complete dead-lock to legislation. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Henry Bead, Town Clerk of Warrnambool, for embezz l ing a Building Society funds. It is believed that he has gone home in the Whampoa. A box containing 5000 sovereigns was missing from the mail steamer China at Galle. They were shipped at Sydney last month.