AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1290, 26 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER KOTO3IAHAMA AT RUSSEIX.) Sydney, May 21. Considerable discussion ensued yesterday in the Council on the bill to appropriate Church and School land exclusively for education purposes. An objection was made that many of the Aglican clergy depended on a proportion of the , revenue derived from those lands for decent stipends. The debate was adjourned. In the Assembly, Mr. Brown, on the recommittal of the Electoral Bill,.introduced a clause requiring candidates to make a money order deposit. He consented to modify his original proposition by the substitution of LdO for LSO, and, after an acrimonious debate, this was carried by 19 to 18. The' Assembly has voted L 385,389 as a temporary supply. An attempt to elicit a statement of the financial policy was successfully resisted by the Treasurer. Melbourne, May 20.

It is said that the police have sur? rounded the Kelleys, who are in an inaccessible position near the King River, but that a hundred armed men could not get at them. The only way is to starve them out.

Apelaide, May 20. The telephonic system is to be introduced into the Colony. The receipts on account of land sales in April were L 82,000. Gazette returns state that over 100 Chinese have died in the Northern Territory during three months, on whom no inquests were held.