AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 3 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(by telegraph. ) (I»ER HBKO AT WBIiIiETGTOIT.) ! v;v.vj Sydney, August,2B. The Daily Telegraph and Evening News continue to comment freely on Judge Windyer'ia silmmings in connection with s the libel cases in which these .journals were respectively mulcted in damages, and relative tu the decision of the full Court to hring the proprietors of the Evening News =••• before them, to answer for alleged contempt. The country Press also_ notice the affair, and a public meeting, passed resolutions adverse to the action of the Judges. : ; It~is supposed that a dreaful crime has been committed near Inverell. A man reported to the police that. a selector named Mullarly,, had been accidentally burned to death. . The police had 'their suspicion excited, and procured an inquest. The Skull shows marks of having been hacked with same shatpinstrument. Bu.lli miners are on. strike.. Endeavors to arrange matters -arei proceeding, i At! Temora a new rush has occurred, i near .Oootamundra Road. The wash dirt is stated to look better than any other part; of the field. Speculators have already secured frontages of two miles, anticipating the formation of a township.' Tlie Treasurer has decided to charge wharfage• rates an,,public wharves at Newcastle. Strong opposition has been aroused amongst' local shippers. An influential deputation interviewed "the Minister, who stated that he had no power to interfere with the operation of the law.

Afa- official report, from the Warden at Temora states that it is impossible at the present time to form any reliable opinion. Fifty claims may be reckoned, payable, and! the most- that can be said for the field is that in tho course of time it will prove extensive and profitable:' Her advises miners: intending to start for Temora to wait until something more definite is known,

The Victoria Parliamentary session opens on the 31st. The Budget Statement will not be made till the following week. It is likely to,adjourn for a fortnight or a month for the Exhibition.

Mr. Berry admits that the Opposition are,' not despicable in point of members, and that they, are ably led. To secure success there must. be. loyalty and discipline. He said that he was not an advocate of revolutionary expedients, but the Liberal Party would right matters surely but slowly. The payment of members of both Houses on the old basis would be amongst the first Government Bills introduced. <

QUEENSLAND. , The Opposition resumed stonewalling the proposed mail contract. It is. understood that it is intended to obstruct, till the expiration of the time fixed fdr the ratification of the contract. The Government decline to allow themselves to be worn out by continuous sittings. They intend to adjourn the House for a week. The Premier on the 27 ch received a cablegram from the agents of the British India Company stating that they have contracted for new steamers subject .to the ratification of the Queensland Government, and asking whether it would be a safe proceeding to build vessels.