AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 302, 9 October 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 6. A crowded meeting was held last night to consider the best means of showing sympathy with the Evening f J ews in connection with the contempt of Court case. It was resolved—“ That the Judge’s action was calculated to, endanger the liberty of the subject and the meeting further decided to make an appeal for subscriptions to pay the fine of Li2so imposed on the paper. Oct. 7. The Bernegan rush is now ssid to be overdone. It is currently reported that the

general elections are fixed for the end of the month. Sailed Australia, for San F ancisco, via Auckland, wit a the Homeward English mails. Melbourne, Oct. <j. His Excellency the Governor gave a grand ball at Government House last night, at which 25U0 guests were present It was a brilliant success. The Victorian Exhibition Commissioners entertain the Governor ami other distinguished visitors ut a ball at the Town Hall on the 12th, and at a conversazione at the Exhibition on the night of the 14th ins ' ‘ v The revenue of Victoria during last quarter amounted to H,092,000, being a decrease of L4loo as compared with the corresponding quarter lest year. The s.s. Albion has broken her shaft twenty miles from Wilson’s Promontory. Assistance is required. Later. At Goldbrough’s wool auction to-day there was a large attendance of foreign buyers and good competition at 10 per cent advance. Sailed— Union Companies’ steamer Te Anau, for Bluff. The steamer Albion has been sighted to the leeward of Wilson’s Promontory.