Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3064, 10 December 1878, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

(Pee g.B, Tababua at the Bitiff.)

(Per Pbess Agency.)

Meiboubne, December 5. : Mr Berry leaves on the Embassy at the end of the moath.

The Commissioner of Public Works, speaking the other night, said Black Wed* nesday was the most glorious day the sun ever shone on in the colony.

- The Contagious Disease Act passed by Parliament was assented to by the Governor. ...-.,/' ■.;..; , •■.'...,■. >- ; ■'

It has transpired that the vacant judge* ship has been offered to Mr Higinbotham and declined.

The fines of £500 imposed on David and £50 on Ireland, in the embracery cases, have been paid by both prisoners who are confined in Melbourne goal.

The celebrated stallion Panic died on Saturday. Nothing further about the bushrangers. All traces appear to be lost. The police found the horses of the murdered men: and some charred reins and saddles, but nothing has been seen of the Kelly gang. r The Lord Harris team of Gentlemen Cricketers have arrived at Adelaide, andj play there on Thursday week, the same day as the Australian Eleven play Melbourne.

A new steel paddle-wheel steamer, to carry 1000 passengers, is to be built for the Bay trade. The seamen's strike at Sydney is causing some inconvenience, as few of the boats of the A.S.N. Company are now running. Bust is prevalent in many parts of the colony. Every prospect of a hot summer. ...

(Peb s.B. Australia.)

The Melbourne cable contract baa been •igned, but the date when reduction! in Press and Government messages come into operation is not fixed

The Melbourne team selected to plaj the returned Australians are Alexander, Allen, Campbell, Elliot, Gaggin, Groubej Hastings, Kendall, Moule, Major, MoCaramon, Palmer, Slight, Tennant, Woolf; emergency, Tunnock.

There have been burglaries in twenty private suburban residences during the month. .

Queensland news from the Mackay reports James Martin, seaman of the Heather Belle,' Sydney, killed. Also, a party in the Mystery murdered. At a public meeting it was resolved to invite the Mayors throughout the Colony/ and to invite weekly subscriptions for the anti-Chinese strikers. :

Great anti-Chinese demonstration at Newcastle. Strong guards, of police on arrival of the steamers,.

Martin Enright* Iniled by a fall of earth at Mudgee, unmarried, has friends in. Otago.