AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2137, 27 January 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.) [[Per Wakatipu at Wellington.] WELLINGTON, Jax. 27. Arrived, at 1.15 a.m., Wakatipu, from Sddncy. On the morning of tbc 26tb, an infant on board named Charles: Walker Hugli Brown died through the effects of teething. : . NEW SOUTH WALES. « Trickett, the champion sculler, received information by the 'Frisco mail, that Hanlon, the Canadian, visits England during the coming season, to retain the trophy won from Elliott. Canon Smith, of Bathurst, is about to visit England, and has undertaken to deliver ten lectures on New South Wales. At a meeting of the Cricket Association, on Jan. 19, a letter was read from the manager of the team for England contradicting rumours tha't the team is Mot likely to go. Lilly white is arrangingthe matches in England on behalf of the team. At the execution Scott died instantaneously. .Rogan struggled ten minutes. . Scott wrote incessantly the greater part of the preceding night. At Ids first interview wtth his mother and sister, " Rogan behaved brutally, using disgusting language. • South Australian freights are lower- , ; Iron ships, 60s ; wooden, 6d less. ./The .weather is very hot and several bush fires are raging. One at Port El- - liott threatened to destroy the township ; ; and burnt the gardens, .haystacks, and gra«» of,-the township.. Tire steamer Seine left Banjoewangie on Saturday, Jan, 17, paying out the duplicate Cable to Port Darwin. Tire mission brig John Wesley from the Solomon Group was spoken off New- ; castle on Jan 19, under jury masts, but declined assistance. ' ’ QUEENSLAND.' . ' On the re-opening of the state schools on Jan. 20, the Roman Caatholic children’were noticeably- absent. At the half-yearly'- meeting of; the Queensland Insurance Company, the recent movement to wind up was generally deprecated and the report was adopted. The heaviest hoods-ever known have ~-occurred on Daintrec river. Cedar logs and bullocks were washed away, and apprehensions respecting the cedar getters’ safety prevail. . VICTORIA. Subscriptions to the Irish Relief Fund continue to How in. The committee hope soon to announce the receipt of £IO,OOO. Tlxe Australian Agency- and Banking Corporation have declared a dividend ut 10 per cent, per annum. - -'“’Mr“Johnston, ■-analytical-chemist, has finished his analysis of the beer produced at the Qnccnscliffc poisoning case. He has found enough strychnine in the bottle to poison 14 men. The 'Brewers’ \Club' are taking action in the cases in . the interests of their trade.

Bush fired’are' reported in many parts of fbe country, hut no serious damage .has 1 Been done. , The .highest, heat registered in the country to-day was 110 in the-shade. [Per Rotomahana at the Bluff.] VICTORIA, A French half-caste named Delonars stuck up the Holy Plains Station, near Roxdalej Gippsland, in revenge for having been discharged hy the owner. He drew a revolver and hy threats collected all the men on the station, seven in number, in a hut, where lie kept them twelve hours.. Hoythreateiied a woman, who showed a‘. disposition to refuse to bring him the owner’s gnu, and also vowed be came for the purpesc of shooting the owner. He left early next morning, .taking; a‘ horse and plenty of arms and ammunition. He has not yet been traced, and much uneasiness is fcl t. Four cases of poison by drinking colonial beer have occurred. One man died from its effects, but the others recovered. It is alleged that all exhibited symptoms of poisoning as in strychnine cases. All occurred within about a week of each other. It is believed the poison resulted from not properly cleaning the bottles. A married man named Ben/.ley was twice detected by Ids wife trying to 'outrage bis yoimg daughter.- When he was arrested he cut his throat. NEW SOUTH WALES. Several farm laborers at Croenock wore fined for torturing a little boy by locking Idm in a reaping machine and compelling.him;to remain ten minutes while the machine was at work. It was done in order to make the boy confess whore he had, planted some stolen money. Active, but unsuccessful efforts, were made to secure the reprieve of Rogan, who was fully identilied as having been twice convicted dm Victoria; A number of the jury requested Lord Loftus to give full effect to their recommendation to mercy, which included Rogan. The (rOvHmnent 1 ex'clnded the ‘Tress from the execution, fearing tho.pnhliqdion of sensational ‘and improper accounts. A small section of the Assembly condemned the action, of the Governor in ; connection' with ■ the reprieve of the two bushrangers, but Sir. Henry. I’arkcs warmly defended him. Increased duties on imported spirits and spirits distilled in the colony, sparkling and other.wines, have' been carried. The proposed excise duties will be either defeated or withdrawn. • s- 1 The Irish Relief Committee remitted £3500 to Dublin. Mr Tooth, a brewer .subscribed £SOO and the. Bank of New South Wales the same amount. . .M is stated, that Trickett intends to proceed to England to row Hanlon for the championship of the world. IJ [anion writes that he is willing to row Trickett in Sydney for 10,000 dollars. Persons injured by the Paramatta railway accident claim £2OOO damages. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The South Australian Parliament was prorogued till March 12. The expenditure of the country last-year showed an increase of £226,000 over the corresponding- period of last .year, while the increase in the revenue was only £69,800. _ A quantity of wreckage was discovered four miles westward of the great Australian Bight. The board found was lettered “ Craigcnbrock,” but it is believed the name is wronly reported. Possibly it is Oraigcndarroek. The Government'has given notice of the resumption of nearly live thousand square miles of country now leased for pastoral purposes. QUEENSLAND. The Queensland National Bank ; at Cmmaumlla was stuck up and robbed on Sunday morning by a man named Wells. He took £179 from the safe. When Mr Murphy, a local storekeeper, attempted to help the manager, the robber shot at his head. The bullet glanced off and lodged in Mr Murphy’s shoulder. The robber escaped after a severe struggle, but the townspeople followed and caught him after a hard race. He had a splendid horse, which, unfortunately for him, broke away, or he would have escaped. ’ It is expected that the Scottish Knight will ultimately get off, and be taken to Sydney.