AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2462, 8 February 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph.]

(Per Eingarooma at Auckland.)

NEW SOUTH WALES,

Sydney, Feb. 3

The Bishop of Sydney progresses towards recovery satisfactorily. His walking lias improved, and he is able to sit out of doors. He took a drive on Monday. A Paramatta man was stuck up and robbed by two men in a dog-trap on the road on Sunday. Ho was severely beaten about the head by the robbers. Afterwards they tried to enter a dwelling at Gasina. It is reported that a pearl fishing discovery has been made in the Evans river. A prospecting party is out in the same locality for gold. At Oobarge a rush has taken place six miles up the coast and two from from Corunna.. About fifty are in the Held. The prospectors are getting three and a half dwts to the dish in the highest instance. The ground is private property’, and only a limited number are at present allowed to work the facing. At Newcastle a Scotch woman, named Mack, died aged 91) years and 10 months. She was in full possession of her faculties up to the time of death. VICTORIA. .lolm W. Ensyre contests Mahlon. A Constitutional committee selected Walsh, the "candidate at East Melbourne. Ooppin lias placed himself unreservedly in the hands of the Committee.

By a bn.sli fire near Heathcote, a man named Bobinson was burned to deatli.

£;7000 worth of six per cent debentures, issued by the Borough of Sale, were put in the market. Tenders were sent in for £42,000. all above par. One institution offered to take the whole at £ll2 l-7th.

The consideration of the charge of heterodoxy against the llev. Strong, of Scots Church, on account of his views respecting the atonement, has been postponed till next month. Mr Berry has written to Mr Gaunson urging him to retire for East Melbourne in favor of Levi, another Ministerialist. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Some time ago the Government wrote to the Canadian Government, asking that an arrangement be made to allow colonial wines to be admitted to the union duty free. An answer has been received declining to enter into arrangements on the ground that the Canadian Cabinet had increased the duties on all classes of imported goods for the purpose of carrying out heavy undertakings. QUEENSLAND. Watson has sent in a progress report of the Hying survey of the trans-conti-nental railwaj at lloma and Carpentaria. He arrived at Charlovillo on the 21st ult. He says the country is first-class between Starvell, Murtoa, and Victoria. He believes an efficient line can he constructed at a reasonable cost. A third of the adjoining, land,is excellent scrub, and half of the laud will eventually come into cultivation.