AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 13 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne May 11. Parliament was opened to-lay hy ( o nmissian. Mr McMahon was elected Speaker. Forty-four members were present. Five new members wore sworn in. Great scarcity of coal exists in Melbourne, n’most already a famine, owing to tin* strike of miners at Newcastle. Correction. —The Meat Company formed in Kngland has been promoted by Messrs Lollwrabh, Michan and Co., not by Mr Mcllwraitb, Premier of Queensland • Mr Sloan ban been appointed agent in Melbourne and Sydney. Adelaide, May 11. Three passengers by th 1 Orient, which arrived here yesterday, committed suicide on the voyage from Plymouth. Melbourne, May 10. Mr Service, Premier, has te’ographed to the Imperial Government to enquire whether there was anyone of the name of Webster on board the knowsb-y Hall. The reply, it is thought, wil give c inclusive evidence as to the truth of the letter found in the bottle at Portland. Six sailors aboard the barque Zwee Vrieuclen, from Java, have died of the fever which is raging in the ship. Mr Servre forma‘ly opened t;e new Exchange to-day. Tncre ar<> thousands of persons present at the ceremony. The liish Relief p’und has now closed the total amount subscribed being L 51,67 5* The Meat Company which has been formed in England, and tie ntioned in the telegrams yesterday, has I een formed hy the Honorable Thom, s MHlwraith, Premier of Qneeoslnnf, at present in England Messrs M* Enchant and Sloanet have been appointed agents at Melbourne ami Sydney respectively. Obituary—Moses Rental, chi fof the Hebrews in Melbourne. Sydney, May 10. Tne Pacific mail steamship Australia arrived here yesterday from ' uckland. The barque Chandernagore has been seiz-d for debt. Some of the mines at Newcastle are charging 14» <n 1 others los per ton h*r coal. . Adelaide, Mar 10. The E, and A. M. st amship o nerset with inward Torres Straits mail arrived here on Saturday, from Singapore. She brings the following items of Eng lish news . War is increasingly imminent between Russia and China both of which are in a disturbed condition, prejudicnl to trade. The Chinese G vernment is making warlike preparations, ai d pushing forward their armam nt, whilst Kussia has been busily engaged massing an army on the Kuldja frontier.