AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(per ringarooma, at the bluff.) Melbourne, May 29,
In tlie present dormant state of politics there is very little news of interest. The Ministry have issued free passes to country Mayors to travel by rail to the Governor's levee. Only a dozen representatives of the mercantile interest were present. This week, the Chief Secretary and Ministers have been attending baurjuets to local representatives. The cable contract has been drawn up and forwarded by telegraph to London. The Company have to duplicate their lines within eight months from the date of signing the agreement. Press messages must be addressed to licensed newspapers, and be in plain English, with no cipher or words of concealed meaning. Mr. Farrell having resigned his seat for Castlemaine, Professors Pearson and William Garmson are candidates on the Government side, and Mr. Chapman will go in in the Opposition interest. The Government have found work for upwards of 200 unemployed in carrying out drainage work, and intend further to carrj' out two of the new lines of railway, by day labor ; but large numbers of unemployed are not laborers, but belong to building and mechanical trades. Public confidence has not been completely restored. Very little building is proceeded with J The Government are very anx\-". . 0 commence the erection of Exhibition buildin" in Carlton hardens, otherwise the vote will lapse on the 30th proximo. The building will ultimately cost about LIOO,OOO. Country trade is very dftll, and no bnsiness of importance is doing.
Mr. J. L. Hall is engaged to appear a\ the Academy of Music, Sydney.
• It is stated that the Governor has been offered an important position by the Imperial Government, but nothing is officially known, and the statement is doubted.
The Budget of Brisbane shows 'an increase in the estimated revenue next year of a million and a half. : Governor Robinson has subscribed twenty guineas towards the proposed monument to the late Archbishop Polding.
The Chinaman who murdered one of his countrymen at Goulbourn was executed yesterday.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 652, 5 June 1878, Page 2
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