AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3154, 28 March 1879, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(FEB 8.8. CLITJD HAMIITOir.)

Milboubnb, March 20.

Out of the new 4 loan £120,000 will be applied to building new State schools. It is intended to graft the penny saving! bank system in connection with, the State , schools on the Post Office Barings bank system. The Government intend to propose the abolition of tho endowment of local bodief and to subsidise main roads according to mileage instead. The system is unpopular, and the municipalities suggest that the Government should take charge of the main roads. - Sir John Coode's recommendation of the Yarra as the natural entrance of the future port of Melbourne agrees with the report of Messrs Wardell, Higinbotham, and Gordon, Victorian engineers. The Government is likely to grant £1000 to the Melbourne Juvenile Industrial Exhibition. Andrew Cohn, sorated water mannfae* turer, has been committed for trial on the charge of stealing 5000 gallons of Van YejijWater. ' -\ " '-•:•' The Government will pot prosecute the rioters who forced the gate of the Murray Bridge at EchucaV 'T r" , Lynch, one of the Kelly sympathisers, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for sending a threatening letter. The contractors for the Oakleigh Eailway dislodged 20;000 yards of stone from the quarry with One charge of 9001bs of lithofracteur. , : . Statistics show the municipal valuation of Victoria last year to be £7,030,758. The revenue declined £59,515, mainly through the abolition of tolls. The Albion rolling mills have been started on the Yarra bank to utilise scrap iron. , The Government ordered 10,000 copies of the Illustrated Australean News for dislributton at the. Paris Exhibition, and paid £483 out of the building vote for the International. Exhibition. The Audit Commissioner disallowed the amount, and the Finance "Committe«-^©f the Exhibition, under pressure, charged it to the general expenses of the new Exhibition. ; . . Morrel, a barber, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for trying to bribe a juror on David Henry's; trial.