ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. AUSTRALIA.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2530, 14 February 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. AUSTRALIA.

Australian Telegrams.

(Pjsk Press Agency.)

AUCKLAND.

Tins day. The .Australia has arrived from Sydnej, and leaves with the mail this afternoon. She left Sydney on February 9th. Melbourne. A London telegram states that the appeal to the, Privy Council in the case Woolley v. the Ironstone Hill Company was dismissed, thus upholding the decision of Judge Molesworth, that the Crown was entitled to the gold on private laud which had been granted:by the Crown. John Lord's deficiencies in the.biiilding society already discovered are over £3000. .They have been- going on for three years. John Cuddy, clerk in the Colonial Bank,

has been arrested for stealing £200 belonging to the Bank, and remanded. j Kenny, hie rate collector of the Water | Supply Department, has. been convicted ' of embezzlement, and,sentenced to two years-imprisonment. Governor J3:.>wcu was-accompanied by Sir William Gregory to Tasmania.' ■The election of a committee of management for.the Melbourne Hospiial is going on amid" great excitement, Catholics and Protestants being ranged against each other. ' : „ .... ... A block of buildings in Bourke street, situate above the Opera House, has been sold privately for £36,500. JSTegotiations are on foot to erect a large theatre on this site, on the American principle. , Owing to a want of unanimity among the publicans the resolution to close their houses on Sundays is likely to be shortly abandoned. All licensed houses are to be opened on Sundays as heretofore. The Vigilance Committee appointed by the association are unwilling to prosecute,-and the system of espionage ia condemned by the trade. Bkisbane. A Sub-Inspector of Police was "dispatched to Tarn O'Shanter's Point, near Cairns, to enquire about a boat that had been seen there on the beach. He reports finding some sails .stained with blood. He captured two gins, who said that the blacks had murdered three men, and then threw them overboard, but nothing is left from which to recognise them. : . Adelaide. At Wilson's Circus Airec slipped from the trapeze, and being unable to catch the guy fell thirty feet. He was much bruised, and one of his wrists was fractured. . ; A collision occurred between the Victorian and Willunga. The former crushed obliquely into the Willunga on the starboard bow, cutting through the main rail bulwarks waterway. The dredge heeled over to port, and sank in a short time. All hands were saved. It will take six months and £10,000 to raise the Willunga. Her original cost was £50,000. The Victoria was injured to the, extent of £150. ■■■■■ '■■'■' *■'• ;'-'::";; ':;"!^' ■ ■