AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2229, 10 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph,] (Por Rotorua at the Bluff.) Bluff, May 10. The Rotorua arrived at the Bluff this morning, at 8 a.m. She left Melbourne at 2 p.m. on May 4 ; arrived at Hobartown at 7 a.m, on the Gth ; sailed at 3 p.m.. Experienced light variable winds from Melbourne to Hobartown, thence strong north, west winds till arrival. Passengers for the Bluff— Lieutenant and Mrs Herman, Miss Bellinger, Messrs George, Curry, Wilkington, Barnard, the Confederate Diorama Company and 6 steerage. For Dunedin —Miss Balcombo, Capt. Crcer and 16 steerage. For Lyttelton—Mr and Miss Hoaro, Messrs Mitchell, Stophord and 6 steerage. For Wellington —Mrs Taylor and infant, Mrs Fraser, Miss Marsdcn, Messrs Wilson, Browne and G steerage. VICTORIA. J. M. Grant lias issued a circular announcing his candidacy tor the Speakership. There arc now three candidates : Grant, Lalor, and Macmabon. The latter is the Government nominee. The business of the Judicature Commission is proceeding and a Bill willsoon be drafted on the lines followed by the Commission, ft is stated that the Judicature Bill, for which Sir Bryan O’Logblen ordered TTGo to lie paid to M. A. McDonald for drafting cannot lie found. It appears the type has been used by tbe Government printer. No additional cases of measles have been reported for some days past, but diphtheria continues to spread in the country districts. There appears little doubt that the measles was introduced into tbo colony from tbe ship Kent, whose passengers were landed without their effects being fumigated.

Sectional committees of the Social Science Congress are holding meetings and arranging the proceedings of their Congress during the Exhibition. The recent decision of the Exhibition Commissioners to call tenders for chairs, excluding Chinese labor from competing, is causing much discussion in the Press. NEW SOUTH WALES. The Colonial Secretary has received a telegram from London giving the following- additional names in the English Ministry ; Lord Chamberlain, Ear! Kemmi're ; Lord Steward, Earl Sydney; Master of the Buckhounds, Earl of Cork; Master of the Horse, Duke of Westminster ; Under Secretary for India, Marquis of Lansdowne. Four other counsel have given the opinion that Slattery, the prothonotary, was an officer of the Supremo Court on!v, and not of the {Jovermnent, and consequently his dismissal was illegal. The Queen of the South, from Adelaide, encountered the ship Altair, from Melbourne to 1 hmedin, on April 2(3. The Allair had lost her compass in a gale, and had to get her bearings from the Queen of the South. The barque Lady Emma, 128 tons, went ashore at Sydney Heads on Friday night, April 80. Her master was drowned. The vessel was insured for £550 in the Union Company of New Zealand and New South Wales. A schooner which has just arrived, reports seeing a steamer at Port Proton about 200 miles from New Ireland, with 700 foreign immigrants for the new settlement. The owners in the Waratah district show a disposition to submit the dispute to arbitration, and the men of the Waratah company have resumed work having accepted the manager’s terms. The Bank of Now South Wales has declared a dividend at the rate of 17A per cent. £IO,OOO has also been added to the Ecscrro Fund, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Ladj r Jarvis is suffering from indis position. Burnett has been very successful in his temperance crusade. A monster meeting was held on Satmxhiy in the Town Hall, Sir Henry Ayers presiding. The speakers included Dean Eussoll and the Chief Secretary. The Exhibition Commissioners have asked for £SOOO from the Government, for the representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition. WESTERN AUSTEALTA. Onslow, Attorney-General at Honduras, has been appointed AttorneyGeneral for Western Australia. TASMANIA. The Edith May, barcjueulinc, from Lyttelton to Adelaide, put into Hazard Bay through stress of weather. QUEENSLAND. A Government Board is about being appointed to carry out experiments in connection with rust in wheat, for eradicating which a reward is offered, and there are many competitors for the prize.