AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1204, 25 February 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

\ SYDNEY! j Mr. Buchanan's motion that the fact that Mr. Stephen, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor,is k rhemb'er of the 'Legislative Council, is of the Constitution, was opposed by Sir Henry Parkes ari<d>n^'gatived v bjpi 35 tcK 4. For his motion that the prerogative of mercy should in future be exercised by the Governor with the Executive Council, and not the Governor alone, and censuring the Governor relative to the commutatipn of the sentences of Williams and Bennejit, Mr. Buchanan alone voted aye. It is understood that the vital statistics about to be issued will show that the in-

crease in population during last year was unprecedented even during the early gold discoveries, it being nearly 40,000, making a total of close upon three-quarters of a million. During the erapaWtieUing of juries to try cases Prosecutor challenged the jwliV acquitted Williams. M'V i j t . '•A cHhigaiw formed at Kiaim, "M ;condenßsS mjlk. i j i . „* ® MfeM'E|h£ne>Mr. Hoskins stasia tiVAssSfbbly /Distifleri#Sjj is receding full Eaton is being paid a'salaty'of L 550 for doing his work. Lansdone's creditors will likely accept a composition of instalments from salary. Tliey include sonj® infured^y'a 1 rnnh is in apolitical .conditio!}.

r q-?jr /, q Victoria. " '"At" "a"TSeform League meeting held at present-^I-t---was spogfe .disorderly meeting'' "that; ever -'took' place there. "Several EgHts occurred, and the police were called in, but were unable to restore order, and the meeting broke up in confusion. i

Mr. M'Pherson, of the Melbourne Jute Works—a protected industry—has called a meeting of his creditors. It is believed that he will show a surplus of L 14,000. The Reformer paper, with a issue of a thousand, containing an adverse history of the Berry Government, has been published for disemination broadcast through-, out the country. •" Larkins, who published the'' Firebrand appeared in Court to shew cause why it should not be destroyed as obscene. He denies the charge, and says that it is not. more objectionable than passages in Shakespeare's, Swinburne's, and Byron's writings, or the Bible. The Bench ruled it as disgusting and obscene, and ordered its destruction. i -■

It is understood that the performance of Apemone, a new burlesque on the Ministry, will be permitted, and that action will only be taken if anything in it should be immoral or offensive. While a constable was endeavoring tp arrest a young man at Sandridge, the latter swam to a vessel some distance from the shore, and defied the police. Severjal constables went in a boat and arrested him after a severe struggle.

QUEENSLAND. Wells, the Cunnamulla bushranger, has been sentenced to death for shooting at Murphy with intent to murder, without hope of mercy. ;

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The Register complains that the Government are importing iron bridges from America instead of calling for local tenders, and states that their action is in violation of a resolution of the Assembly seven years ago. A splendid sample of flour, ground by means of steel rollers at Berlin, is shown at ..and much admired.