AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 231, 3 February 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The following items of Australian news wi re ought 1 y the steamer Jd«» >, which arrived at Auckland on Saturday : Sydney, Jan. 22. The Mission brig JohaWes'ey a nmi at Sydney on the 21st January, jivyraasted, from tho Solomon Is aac's, She experienced a humane, which threw he** on her beam ends, and the ballast shifted. She was expected to founder, but was relieved by cutting away both masts. The Rev. G. Brown and several native teachers were on board. Two butchers’ men were fined L 5 at <be Police Court for jamming sheep in carts. The Loftus troupe are doing a great business. There are no eompl-ints of :ndecency at present.

Madame Wiso’s violinist concei t was a great success. At Doni'iquin the goods on the counter of a store were noticed on fire at 3 a.m. The shop was full of smoke* and when extinguished the storekeeper was di-covered on the premises, dead from suffocation. Blake anil Taylor, both well connected have been reman led on a charge of assn ;t and robbery. 'The prosecutor’s evidence points to a deliberate attempt first by card playing, and by robbery with violence. Casts of the heads of Scott and Kogan have, with the permission of k£ke authorities, have been taken by a phrenologist. The Treasurer, replying to a question in the Assembly, stated, in reference to the defeat of the proposed excise d aties that the Government did not intend to propose aditioual taxation in the lieu of the sum lost, unless absolute necessity arose, * Louis Mersex, an amtioneer at Paramatta, was committed for trial for libel on the master of the local Freemason L dge, published in the Bathurst Sontim 1 a notorious print. In Richmond river a drogher ovorloaded with deck cargo capsized. Four passengers and the engineer were drowned. At Gundagai a { hinaman reported to the police an attempt at sticking up by a man on .. grey harse, who presented a revolver at him, but missed" fire. They commenced screaming and ho rodo off. The police are pursuing him. It is alleged that much distress j.revails among ccal miners at Newcastle. Mr David Buchanan tabledl a motion in the Assembly censuring the Governor for Commuting the sentence of Williams and Bennett, contrary to the unanimous ad vice of the Executive to let tllo law take its course.