AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Miißouww, April 23. The weather is beautifully find and mmmer-Hke, but disastrous: for ooantrr Mricultural operations, which are at a •tanditill owing to the want of rain. la many parti water is not efen afailable for domestic purposes. The railway de* partment has icsroely water for the locomotires; and complaint* are burner* rouß of the injury from want of rain to the crops. 1 Professor MeCoy, of the Uniwrsity, has been awarded the Murchison medal by the Royal Geological Society. , The late shareholders of the Hobson's Bay Railway Company hare been paid the ralue of their shares. Those held in the colony amount to £301,353. The larrgeat shareholder was J. Clarke, dose upon £100,000. The eight hours demonstration was rery successful. Fifteen thousand personi attended the fete. Several of the Minis* ters were present. The Victoria Fire and Marino Insnr- ! ance Company is to be wound up, and a j new company formed. The assets, which amount to nearly a quarter of a million, are to be divided amongst the shareholders. .. . .
Four vessels have been chartered to load breadstuff's for Callao, and 1,800 tons flour and 1,600 tons of wheat will be conveyed to South America., This is in eonsequenee of the war between Chili and Bolivia. . -
Business still continues very dull ia all places. Captain Barice, of the Royal Navy, lately attached to the postal department, has been found dead. Some suspicion has arisen that his death was hastened by an overdose administered by his Attendant. Cook and Kilkenny hare concluded their billiard matches, and will proceed to New Zealand after visiting Sydney. Alfred Plumpton has been selected by the Ceremonial Committee of the Exhibition to writo a can tana for the opening. The poem is to be left open for^ompeti* tion in all the Australian colonies.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company intend issuing return tickets at reduced fares during the Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions, allowing three mouth!!' stay ia Australia. ! ' *
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 1
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324AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 1
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