AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3228, 24 June 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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SfD^BY, June }9. , Sailed : Clifton, barsqo»''.,', fp£ ;■ Port Chalmers via New Castle. „ ■ ]. • ;

The debate on the Land Bill is further | adjourned in the Legislative Council. The Executive Council commuted the sentences on George Peckham and John Lewis, who wore convicted of wife murder—the first named prisoner to fourteen years' penal servitude. ;,...< , : !i j Waterhouse, mas'er of the steamer Prince of Wales, was fined ten pounds for a breach of the marine regulations by allowing his steamer to follow the Intercolonial Boat Hace. ' ' : Two men at Sydney wore fined one shilling each and costs, under the Act of Charles the Second, for clipping a horse on Sunday. •■•.;, The cutter Basilis has been wrecked off Cornelia Reach. No lives were lost. Queensland. Father Scortechini, who was stabbed by McQoldiorick, is recovering. His assail* lant is committed for trial.' ;: ; A vote of waut cf confidence on the; financial policy of the Gorerninent was negatived by tweuty-three to twenty I.V >■■'■' Melboubne. Warrants have been issued tor the

arrest of the Kelly sympathisers who .purchased arms and ammunition in Melbourne for the Kellys.

' Parliament moots about the fifteenth of July.

Adelaide

J The Commissioner of Public Works, in,, a jpeply to a deputation, promises to give local ironmasters priority in tenders.

A woman has died from fright by tinkottling on the night of her marriage. A verdict of manslaughter against the tin-kettlers was returned.