AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2150, 10 February 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Teleqeapii.] [Per Botorua at the Bluff.] BLUFF, Feu. !l. The following additional news has been received per s.s. Botoma. The phylloxera has been discovered near Batesford, in the Geelong district. The vineyard has been uprooted. The Boyal Maori Haka Troupe consisting of twenty Maoris headed by (he chief Punamcro Tuhakaerioka, arc pre. forming in Melbourne. An old man named Thomas Woods died from the effects of brutal injuries inflicted during a drunken row with a policeman named Montgomery, of Crcswick. Woods, three days before his death insured his life for £4OO. At the annual sale of the St. Albans’ yearlings, the progeny of King of the Bing realised 2(350 guineas, being an average of £soo each. Two men have been sentenced _ to nine months hard labor for attempting to rob the Commercial Bank at Murchison. The manager raised the alarm b} r firing a revolver. Mr Hobbs, who as a boy came to Port Philip with Governor Collins in 1803, and endeavoured to found a penal settlement at Point Kajjean, died in Melbourne on Jan. 30. A curious theatrical dispute has come

beforethe Melbourne City Court. Miss Imogene, an American actress, summoned her agent, Russell Rogers for savage assault. The agent was fined £5 and costs, and bound over to keep the peace. i NEW SOUTH WALES. A meeting held under the auspices of the Trade Labor Council of Sydney condemned the expenditure of £76,000 on immigration as unjust to the laboring classes. ... A fishing boat left Newcastle about a month ago with three men, bound on a fishing excursion, and has not since been heard of. They are supposed to have been lost. News, from New Caledonia states the ten convicts who recently attempted to escape are to be guillotined. Fifty more seized a small steamer and got away. Destructive bush tires are frequent. Fdrty: thousand acres of grass were destroyed on one station. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. A .man named Whitclock was assaulted by two men named Heard and O’Leary, and nearly killed. Subsequently another mau named Mant threw Heard over his shoulder and killed him. A- respectable servant girl, aged eighteen, was decoyed into an Adelaide warehouse by the foreman who criminally assaulted her. Another man then rushed in and commitcd a second outrage. . It is not considered probable that the wreckage recently found off the Australian Light is identical -with the Craig Endorrach.