AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 228, 24 January 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney,. Jan. 14. The stamp duties were considered and - carried. The tariff resolutions show increase! 'nti -s <m spirits imported, and also on. tlmse distilled in the colony, and on sj» rki mg' mid other imported wines. ■ The most destructive hush fires ‘‘ever experienced ragged on the- night of the 13th around Newcastle. • -dj The project for a Sydney meat preserving company failed, and it was decided to break it up. Subscriptions towards the Irish Relic i Fund are pouring in from the - country towns. Influential gentleman arc personally canvassing. Sydney, and Co. have’given 1/250, and Jb's mised a second subscription to the amount if required, '{he Bunk of New South Wales (v aiributed LSOO. Pros miaent theatrical and musical artists suhscri' < d handsomely, besides offering their services for an enkrtainment.

A practical discovery, rendering hank notes non-photographic, has heertdisc ivere Iby a Sydney ch.-mist. It isstated the leading banks are in treaty for th ■ purchase of the patent. Numerous meetings of Protectionists have been held to protest against tin fiscal policy of the Government.’ Mr Burton, circus proprietor, i* insolvent. His liabilities in stock and over his .betel, amount to L5U24, and! bis assets to LLSS4. Melbourne, Jan, 13. The Government has consented to provide additional Exhibition space to t!i? extent of 100,000 feet. Several Primitive Methodist Ministers have seceded from the church, ami call’, themselves Independent Methodists,, through a dispute haring arisen between certain parties as to the division of the Church Building Fund. Captain Pearce will | rocced to Europe bv the Kent to exhibit a panorama of Victoria, with descriptive lectures, with a view of encouraging immigration. Adelaide, Jan. 14. The Postmaster-General has received information that the steamer Seine ' has arrived at Banjoewangi with a section of the duplicate cable to be laid between that place and Port Darwin. The Irish Relief Committed have received L 2153 additional LI 500 was received from Archbisluqr Goold, including his own donation o s

r IjUUU. oeveraj HUUM:ri[M-iouß ui one hundred guineas have been received, and the Committee hope to remit LSOOO to the Lord Mayor of Dublin on Friday Meetings in aid of the fund are being held all over the country, and largo stuns are being collected.