AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2339, 15 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[l3v Teleokipii.] (Per City of Sydney at Auckland). XIAV SOUTH WALKS. The Education Department contemplate compulsory attendance in certain districts. A teetotal deputation waited on the Hon. Said Samuels and entrusted him with a congratulatory address to Sir Wilfred Lawson on the passage of the local option resolution in the House of Commons. The address is from the United Temperance Society of the colony. Preliminaries arc progressing favorably for the establishment of a Mercantile Provident Association in Sydney. The leading Jirms donated in (he aggregate AIOOO. The objects arc to make provision for the support of the widows and children of mercantile clerks and olhors being members, during sickness. It is also proposed to aid, by lending money to members, repayable by instalments. VICTORIA. Mrs Oroer having been refused a passage in the Chimborazo, her friends have arranged fur a sailing vessel next week. The directors of the Australian Frozen Meat Export Company being unable to obtain definite information from the Orient Company relative to their arrangements for the conveyance of meat, have chartered the steamer Proctus, which is now being Jitted with refrigerating apparatus, and will sail for London in October with the Jirst shipment of frozen meat. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. A fight occurred at Corowa between two men named Calaghan and Currie on the 2nd. Calaghan was killed. At the inquest a verdict was returned that the deceased came by las death by a fall or blow, but there was not sullicicnt to show how it was caused.

The Sorata is the third vessel stranded within a mile of each other within the last fifteen years. Owing to the fine weather the transhipment of her cargo is nearly completed, and all undamaged transfen’ed to the hulks, but a quantity is still washing in the bold. Most of this will be thrown overboard to save time. All the bulkheads and compartments are leaking freely, but as her bottom rests on the rocks the effects are not what they would be otherwise. The centrifugal pump is, so far, a failure. The Chimborazo brings additional pumping appliances.