Additional Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3193, 14 May 1879, Page 2

Additional Australian News.

(Peb s.s. Albion, a.t the Bluet.)

(Peb Fbess Agency.)

Melboubitk, May 6. ; There is to. be no Birthday. Ball, but a aree official dinner on the 21th.

The Minister of Bail ways is exceeding ,he large suna of mpuey Voted >'iipi making a dock close to the Melbourne terminus] •lthodgh it'jhas been pointed but that tlbe 1 work will interfere wJftji n Siir John Coode'a scheme. He declines to suspend opera* tionii 'r i ':> ~y : ''< 'Mi /. is" .A •/!. !) i

One of the Clydesdale horses which arri?ied r by the Northumberland, •;atfi<s6n as the Vessel reached the pier, was Tallied at a thousand pounds! ' ."''''; ■''/ I

Some rie# buildings are tbibe Wxitfbpd in Lon'sdale street^ called Content r-Glr« den'i Buildings. The fouudatibta^Wtone was laid last week by Mr W. J. Clark, in the presence of a large concourse ol people. '•l I* - *■■' -;-! *:- ''■*■ | a (The GoTernoKreceired a tele^cjHnifrooi the Secrejtary Tofi [State forr thp Colonieji stating that the Prince of Wales js unable t6 fbe present at the" op'enin^ot' jtfie7Mej!bourne Exhibition, but hoped r tp ( yisijt '^tralia shortly.;/" '.V' 1?.'.)" IJI,-, I , ; All the. places of amusement a're'.'aoipg 1 Veil, the Opera Cbmpl»nj:^^re there ii a large house nightly.. jp a^ ' Port Augusta Lake in the far North is bieing^rttshed rapidly. v;fKTA.UO * |