AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Dec. 7,

The enquiry hold by tho Marine Board into the conduct of the captain, of the ship Port Glasgow has colluded, and the decision will be given on Friday. In his evidence tho captain denied the allegations of the -.rev he deserted the deck and gave wry 1.,> drink when tho vessel was in kid weather.

In his evidence in the case against the directors of the Anglo-Australian Banking Company, the liquidator of the institution stated that Staples received from the £23,000 >,uare he \md is,

I During a debate in the Legislative j Council on the Village Settlement Bill, | Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. T. Sargood eulogised the village settlement system in New Zealand, which he said did infinite credit to the colony. The homestead system was not equally successful, as the holdings were too large. He denounced the proposal contained in the Victorian Bill for the purchase of private lauds, as it would open the way to bribery and gross corruption. This clause was subsequently rejected by a large majority. The Assembly rejected the first reading of the Bill to repeal the payment of members by 32 to 28. Dec. 8. Sir Henry Parkes in the course of a lengthy speech in the Legislative Assembly on federation insisted that the electoral law in each state must be left to the state itself ; that each colony entering the second convention must come into it free and untrammelled, and that the lower chamber must control the revenue of the commonwealth.

The Royal Society have received a donation of £ISOO from the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, to help bring about an exhaustive study of Australian weather. Only one tender was received in Sydney for the manufacture of steel rails in the colony. The amount has not been made public. Melbourne, Dec. 7. Staple ;, Dally, Haroldson, and Norwood, <i .odors of the Anglo-Australian Bank, pure committed for trial. ’ Dec. 8 Tho body of the hospital patient was ex'mined and found to be intact.

r a meeting of Sir Matthew Davies’ creditors, the statements submitted showed liabilities, £132,321 ; assets, £28,769. Tho principal secured creditors are the Bank of New South Wales, £25,000 ; Bank of Australasia, £1650 ; Commercial Bank, £6OOO. The Australian Mutual Provident Society holds mortgages over his property to tho extent of £40,000. The meeting approved of the course pursued by Sir Matthew Davies, and adjourned for further consideration. Adelaide, Dec. 7. Admiral Lord Scott and Sir R. Hamilton, ex-Govern or of Tasmania, sailed for England to-day. Dec. 8. A vessel which has arrived here touched at Tristan D’Achuna, the principal of the three small islands in the South Atlantic nearly midway between Africa and America, and reports that the crew of the barque Italia, which was bound from Greenock to Capetown with a cargo of coal, had landed on the island, the barque having been destroyed by fire.