AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 538, 22 January 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(flOt ALli AM OKA, AT i'Jii: lil.Cl-T. ) iVhiLUOI'I'.NK. January it!. The present crisis is the ali-ev,'.;i 0.-..s:np topic. Yesterday a solieitor a.n:i!i-.d t' tiie Chief Justice in tis for :■ tn fv'iupel tho Assistant- Reifistrav of tiie County Court to issue a summons, Tiie oilieer said he had been instructed by the Crown Lands Department not to issue any summonses. Tin Chief Justice .-aid he had no discretion in the matter, and grained the rule for ;■ indinhun it.-t, upon the < ioveniment informed of this step t-liey at once dismissed ali the Registrars and AssistantRegistrars, so it is now impossibly to bring i\ cast) bef >r.e t!je County Court, the Judge having pi''- viously be-'ii suspended. A number of Acts of Parlituieip are now wholly inoperative owing i.> the servic- s of tiie pL.r.v>jia appointed to administer tiiem having been dispensed with. Tub Ct. ivei'iioi', So - U.-orge Uowen. is absent in ain i;|ni. oiiring colony. His absence lias been much commented on. Already t .e <.aVe;s of t iie crisis are being feit by busliies? p.eple. The large employers of labour w'll be forced to reduce their esiablisiiinents. This has been referred to from the pulpits. The Government intend to revert to the system in tWf-i, prior to ISti2, and to make payments on tho authority of tiie Assembly alone, and send them as a,n Appropriation Bill to the Co.tuvU <>t \eisuvts. In Iviverina ;>iHt other parts of New Sov\!h Wales, the heat h;»s been intense, killing birds and ani.uials, There is no grass and Very little water anywhere in the o ■•nitvv. Tiie tJon. Neil Black's sale of purebred cattle at Mount Nnorafc realised L 10.710. The gold yield last year shows a falling off of 1-1:4,42 L ounces as compared with that of t-lif) previous year, The number jof miners has also fallen oil'. ; the total at the end of December being 080,!K>5.