AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 235, 19 February 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Feb. 17. The Tararua, with the Suez mails, sailed this afternoon. It is reported that British manufacturers are disinclined to exhibit here on account of the tariff, which they declare excludes their waves from this market. it is rumoured that Mr Parnell,at the completion of his American tour, will visit Australia and India. The trial of the Directors of the Provincial and Suburban Bank commences on Thursday. Numerous election speeches are being deliver d throughout the country. Arri ved—Garonne. Sailed—Tararua. Sydney, Feb. 17. At a meeting last night preliminary bte; s were taken to despatch an expedition to seek corroboration of the recent statement by a half-caste about Olassan. The subscriptions to the Irish Relief Fund now amount to L 15,000.

The Communists by the schooner Griffin arrived in Auckland by the evening train. Eleven of them are political deportees, and the balance of the offenders are of a criminal class. They have been amnestied by the French Government and their passage paid to Auckland. Accompanying the party are one woman and child bnd three girls, the wife and infant of one political deportee, and the daughters of another. The men are of various trades, a compositor, lithographer, printer, butclier, baker, painter, writer and glazier, music master, and laborers. They are anxious to get to work at once The political batch seem quick, intelligent, and a respectable lot of men.