DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
{PEUTEP. ? S TELEGRAM PEP. PP.ESS ASSOCIATION".) Stdnev, May 25. Official information has been received here by the Government that a vessel smiled from Aden on April 24 (? May 24) for New Britain, laden with arms and ammunition, it is conjectured on a filibustering exDedition. May 2G.
Lewis Sampson, one of the witnesses in the Shepherd versus Dibbs Blander case, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for perjury. Adelaide, May 25.
The race for the Adelaide Birthday Cup took place yesterday ; Banter, 1; Harry. 2 ; Savanaka, 3. A protest was received, which was decided in favor of Banter.
May 20. The Orient Steam Navigation Com' party's Cottopaxi has arrived from Plymouth. The South Australian Parliament meets to-morrow.
Melbourne, May 2G. The steamer Tramin?, for the intercolonial trade, has arrived from England.
(vr.r, STKAMJ'ft AT ATTOKLAXD.) A ruim-r «.'i& reei-ntiy circulated that the K«;lly« were at Chiltern. The police mustered, but it proved to be a camp of four honey-seekers. A commission to paint the portrait of Sir 11. Itobinaon, hh the latest addition to tin* Government House gallory, haw boon < ntriifitcd by a. Sydney committee to G. F. who loft for Now JJealand, tthcru wc v/iIJ b» a guest at Government House till ho has been favori'd with a sufficient number of sittings by Sir Hercules,
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1290, 26 May 1880, Page 2
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