AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 863, 21 January 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Axbion, at the Bluff.) adelaide. A terrible boating accident occurred at Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, on January 7,.by which Mr. Zetland and his two sisters and another lady were all drowned through the boat capsizing. Professor Tate will head an exploring expedition to the north of the Australian Bight to decide upon the most favorable positions in which to sink artesian wells. The balance of the South Australian loan of L 550,000 was sold at LBB ss. The Rev. Charles Clark lias sailed for the Cape. Mr. Thos. Elder has purchased the mare Arapille, own sister to the winner of the English St. Leger, and another mare, and intends breeding with Gang Forward to suit English racing time, with the view of competing for the Derby. The Queenslander Exploring Expedition reached Powell's Creek on the 13tli inst., and, so far as the survey has extended, there is a good route for a railway. Tasmania.

Miss Ada Ward, the actress, was married to Mr. Hugh Fisher, an actor, on the 4th inst. Lord Harris' team was defeated, by eighteen of Southern Tasmania by six wickets. In the match against eighteen of Northern Tasmania, the Englishmen scored 212 and the Tasmanians 40 in their lirst innings, and when the stumps were drawn had 38 runs for seven wickets down in their second. Bins.".AXE. ?.li\ Goldie, naturalist, who spent the last 18 months in New Guinea, has collected a large number of animals, birds, insects, and botanical specimens unknown to science. His party met a tribe of natives in the interior who wear artificial tails of plaited grass of such cunning construction as to entirety mislead a casual observer.

Tiie A.S.N. Company have not taken on the men engaged in the late strike.