AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 255, 13 April 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SviXNEy, April 3. .Minors’ delegates hold a meeting at Waratah. and resolved ''Tint wo do not start weak under reduction imiii Kin-h lime we know as to what conditions we work under. ’ Government lias issued instructions to hand over riie- No .was! !e life-saving apparatus !o tin- car'’ of the permanent Artillery force. Mr A' ,i,sfh r, iiiih manager of the Bank of Now Zealand at Neweasfje, is the whiner of .bun's' cunsidiation. lio .drew IVrea, and wins L 950. »Sir (birdon, Burt,, is the winner of the second prize.. HIIIS CA it. A fire occurred at Corbett's lint tier’s shop. Cook town, and dauuigo was dom. amounting to L3OO, which is covered by insurance in toe New Zealand Uomn.any’s office.

Rents due by, free selectors under tho Acts ;if IdiiS and J.bGii come in remark sidy wadi. > J -h per •. eui id t..e >tmi has been

paid lo date. Neal Bros, have returned Lo Edinburgh after live months’ prospe -ling on tho water-shod at Mulyrave and tin; he ids of the Join stiuif. No dis'-ovorics of importance wore made. A. party under Mr VTm, ]’ack, Covcriiimmt (Geologist, are going through to Fopicrsi;!. Nothing more than, the color w-as Bnmd. ,

The I rise iioiU'f Commit leo have* forwarded LIOOI] lo the Lord M«yoi*, making a total to date of HI, 000.

A memum;. Walker and Bwau. eonl radon; for (ho first section of the Nairn railway, have signed for ,Ld.83,0w0. Matihovv Burnett has arrived, .Mo was welcomed by various ministers and friends of tho tempt*ranee cans-.

John Robertson, a squatter, of Si man House, diedi yesterday, lie was one of the pio: C.rs of the Ban Tborcsleiu dearie: and well iaiuwn for princely hospitality.

'.FRISCO MAIL NFWB. II an Stanloy has delivered a yp«e-h In which ho refused to consider Ids dm i.-d ,n to allow a monument fco! Napoleon t > be erected in Westminster Abbey. Thcspooeh has j. >i•i• vo 1; e d foe dc 11 mal io i r Air Piimsol! apologised to Air Rnssefi and Mr Onslow before (he Douse of Commons for rhe severe refiocnions made by him in a pamphlet in emur-enu-nmn of their opposing ids Dill for rogid.iling flu; ’o ding <if H ops with grain, Tho Mnl. District Hank has been anri ended. ivLils and {.l.i, Manchester warehouse was burn! do'.vn \vi(h a loss of LSOOO, on Fob 3 Too Common Council of London refused, on a vote of 73 lo In, on a motion for an address of congratulation to the Czar on ids escape from assassination Brown, the pcde&lriau has done , r >s3 in six days. fchi'd,laia Fnrgnssnn, formerly Governor of iSTt* v Zealand, has been appointed Governor of Bombay. , . FilioU, the oarsman, will-start for A hie--rica in Aprt'l. in a boat race on the Tyno 1 lawden boat Kemps! er. The London -Standard understands that tho Royal Comvnbsion on agricultural t'opvossion unanimously approved of tho principle of Iho scheme for tho purchase by the Crov'.trirnonl out of the-Irish Church surplus fund of frisk waste lands, which am ( • lie allotted among local farmers on c-r!ain conditions of tenure and improvement.

Princess Louise is recovering from her accicl- nt.

A portion of (lie Metropolitan Fire I’rig.ule, in consequence of a represent at ion DiiKlti liy fho Russian Kir.bftaay, lias procociiod to St Pofcrslinre

Mr (ircsson, who was brought before tho House, charged with treason, has been committal to Newgale

.dhrough an explosion at Nixon Colliery, Glasgow', 01 j<‘ was killed, and 100 thrown out of employment. Through a, boiler explosion at Glas.m-w, on March Ofh, 16 persons weie killed, -1.t.1 20 wounded. On the 7th another explosion killed 26 One hundred weavers at Ashfon-nnder-Lryno, have struck for an advance of 5 nor cent on their wages. The London Times thinks that the Hhrttuan affair will lead to a rupture between i France and Rimia. Hartmann »ckno«rledges that ho wax chor.on by the Nihilists Committee to th« C»rr ; also that he was connected with (he attempt at Moscow, lie loaves for America in a for. j days.

The British Arctic Expedition sails in May next.

Persia is preparing to occupy Herat. The relations between Austria and Italy are distuns'fuL.

The allot p di-ease continues to spread rapidly. A: Salisbury several farmers lost th' ir flocks

I’al.y upholds the Berlin treatv, ivlr Fawcett s motion in the House of Commons that England should contribute towards ihe expenses of the Afgii n war Was negatived on the voices

All the leading Liberals oppose Home Rule in th ir addresses, though favoring rodiess of legitimate grn-vu’ces in Irish affairs. '

M-ijor Oreig, of Dublin, contests that seat for Parliament.

The Irish National Land 'League, in conjunction with the Dublin Trade Society, had a great mee'ing in D ibliu on March 4t . Mr Sullivan, the Home Rid M.P., and Messrs Daly, Brennan and Kelly wore present. The American flag was fr- ely displayed. Mr James Red path, tho special correspondent of the New York Tribune in Ireland writes that, the famine is well in hand and that a I danger of starvation seems past.

The Duchess of Marlborough, in writing to the Lord Mayor of London, says that tho distress continues general, and in some

parts is increasing. Tiro Royal assent has been given to read the Potatoe Bill on March Ist-

Four bailiffs, assisted by police, while pressing for the rent of a farm occupied by a widow near Waterford, wore overpowered by 11io mob. Mr Janies Keev , a New York br her of Irish descent, lias seat 10,000 .dollars direct to tlie Duch. ss of Marlborough fund.

Inn nigral ion in America is increaring rapidly. Large remittmces hove been i«ceivod from friends in the United States: Easter week will see a rush, diene. Tlie Council of tl:c Irish Homo llulera League lias issued another m inb-f st<» lo the elector.'', of Ireland, mainly attacking Lord ih-aoonUieid.

By a lire at the wearing works .it Mos-

cow' tiventy-foir persons were burnt to death, and Iwcnty-nino injured, Tho authorities t-king precautions for the safety of 'dm Slate itanks. A Prussian oliiecr has been arrested vv’hile,sketching buil.lings near .Pari-; on March 3rd. The French Jesuits intimate to the Primate of of Spain, having been evicted Cro n France, they will cede refuge on Spanish coil. Ail Jesuits not Frou-It arc already !saving (he country.

Gift con mini, g prospectors in Colcvado were killed by ! i.omris

A. journalist and t;k rgyman have been com mi; ting forgeries to large amounts

Emily ivlcivilie, across well known m Aiistraiia, has ben yOOOdois word) of property by Ihe bin-dug oi an hotel at Oakland

Tho Pan Min Kailvny Company feed ap prciiensi.iimf of tne (imposed ro d acr >s the Isthmus of Tdiinml-c

Td-ionM inihtoncc has boon I n.t in Penn sy Iv.inbi The Lancashhe, n steam yacht, owned by ISir Thus i'i.skcth, arrived at Frisco on March Bth fr< m VAkohamo 'Lie new mute by Achtson to Beka und Baida develops other pur nows tlian wum at first supposed it is said amongst or,her tub gs diat lids route will bo far snorter to New Zealand, and timt it wid bring Australia and imw Z- aland 100 miles nearer New Yrrk than they now are.

A delegation of Chinese has keen sent (o Wbcdiingion from 'Frisco to find out whether the Government intend to protect their countrymen in the peaceful pursuit of industry in tho Mnited Slates. An explicit answer is r- qaired Tho leading Neve York citizen:;, in a strong appeal. nek fov ho’p lo give to the starving Americans at Homo as well as to the distressed I rish Kelly, tho pedestrian was boat by Davis - n ft race Herbert attempted to sail from Heston to Melbourne in a small heat, bed; after ting ns far as twenty miles from Brazi ho returned Thi' 11.8. ship Const .illation has boon despatched with .suppl.-s to Inland