AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3204, 27 May 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Pep s.s. Zeaiandia, at Auckland.) (Peb Pbebs Agency.) Sydney, May 22. In the Council, Mr Robertson moved that the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill be discharged from the order paper. The motion was agreed to. Mr Cameron called attention to the faot

that the immigration scheme became a mere traffic in human beings, people being introduced unfit for metropolitan life. \ Sir Henry Parses read the correspondence between himself and Chief Justice Stephens, with reference to the alleged statement by the latter, some years ago, that Parkes ought to be on Cockatoo Island. Stephens had no recollection of such statement. At the Central Criminal Court attention was drawn to the fact that the French Government were about to release 500 to 600 more convicts in New Caledonia. Melbotjene, May 22. j The detectives and police who arrested j Weiberg are to be promoted. I The Geelong and Queenscliffe line has been opened. The Governor and Ministers were present. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Joseph Pearce, charged with aiding and abetting Weiberg. The Government propose to give power to local bodies to employ rates and endowments for the construction of local lines. - ■ '' ■-•• ~iJ Four men were killed at Smythesdale's claim by a cage falling a distance of 250 feet. Queensland, May 22. ; The Government purchased the schooner Pearl from the Imperial Gororn* ment for the Coast Islands about to be annexed as Queensland territory. ■ JElich finds are reported at Gympie. Quotations for Brisbane Cup :—3 to 1 agst Strathearn, 4 to 1 agst Melbourne; K.C.B. and Dean, 5 to 1 agst Lilla and Whisker,; 6 to 1 and 10 to 1 against the rest. i Newcastle, May 22. ! The wreck of the Turtle was sold for £35. '