AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 1 July 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER ALBION, AT HOKITIK4.) Melbourne, June 24.

Numerous petitions in favor of reform were presented to the House yesterday, and others are in course of signature. The Harbor Trust Bill was read a second time by 54 to 4. The Court- has granted a rule nisi calling on Bailliere to shun cause why a new trial should not be ';eid on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence regarding one of tile items in amounts claimed. Sydney, June 24.

The Assembly yesterday resumed the debate on the budget, Mr, Watson, the Treasurer, defended the proposals. The debate was further adjourned. The Marine Board has suspended the certificate of the master of the Australian Sovereign, recently wrecked at New Caledonia.

Tbo heavy frosts have much injured the sugar plants in the Clarence district. Adelaide, June 24.

Returns have been laid on the table showing that 30,000 square miles of land have been applied for in northern territory. The total rent is less than L 14,000. Bbisbene, June 24.

Mr. Douglas, ex-Premier, in a speech at Maryboro to his constituents yesterday, condemned thp prolonged absence of Mr. M'llwraith in England. He con-r sidered the new mail service unnecessary, and advocated a medium between protection and free trade, He was in favor of a transcontinental line.

Tasmania, June 24. Mr. John De Greeves, of Cascade Brewery, is dead.