AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2503, 29 March 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Telegeaph.] • (Per Tararua at the Bluff.) VICTORIA.' Melbourne, March- 22. The Presbyterian Ormond College, opened on Friday by the Governor,. is the gift of Mr Francis Ormond, paid the cost of. the building, £22,5007 A number of scholarships are also' provided. . Baker, the pedestrian, undertook to walk 450 miles in, six days and nights, for a wager Of £2oo,. and accomplished' the feat with half an'hour to spare. ~ The Orient, which arrived on Saturday, took all the fresh meat frozen for Loudon aboard, and used it .during the’’ voyage with the greatest satisfaction. Letters from Sir Arthur Gordon and'. Commodore Wilson replying to thei representations of the Sydney Conference are published to-day. Gordons is strongly of opinion .that, the. reflections on the South Sea question oughtnot to be published in the. absence., of;, the officers concerned, while* Wilsom calls them scurrilous libels devoid off truth in tenor or facts.

NEW SOUTH WALES. \ Slattery’s motion for the abolitibn' of interest on unpaid selectors’ balances wks; negatived on Saturday without devision. A telegram from Mount Browne states that the township is quite dry, and the people arc all leaving. No actual, lead has been struck, but tho surface proves that miners can easily ehrn good wages. Everyone on thediggings is suffering from spre ' people are earnestly warned against coming until rain has fallen.