AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3293, 11 July 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Pcs Phess Agency.)

(Pee s.s. Tabaqtta, at the Bluff.)

Sydney, July 5. The residents of Inverell, in consequence of the habitual neglect of the Government in the matter of roads, are inviting the inhabitants of Northern districts to agitate for separation and formation of a new c*lony^ or -an amalgamation with Queensland. $

A. search instituted through the old Crown Grants in the vicinity of Sydney disclose four instances of very"valuable intended reserves for purposes.

An additional £50,000 has been voted by the Assembly foe the; Exhibition Buildings, making £175,000 altogether. The Premier assumes ; this will be sufficient, but it is generally doubted. The original estimate by the colonial architect was £50,000. The dismissal of Mr Barnet, the colonial architect, i? demanded by several members. The Government admitted his estimates were often unrelialle but defended his from -the charges of collusion with the contractors, and stand by him. • A cbnsigament of ostVi'cb^s' lifts arrived from the Cape. Only six survived; they look draggled but hearty. They are imported by the-iownerj ,Martin, who has bad some experience at the Cape, as aa experiment ,in ostrich,farming Dr Morgan, of the Sydney**lnnrmary, was charged in the Assembly with having performed an; important operation while under the influence of liquor in the Infirmary. The Board instituted an inquiry and reported entirely exonerating him. The evidence" is conflicting,' and the Government have determined to push a separate!inquiry. ■= > n ; / s The Assembly have reversed the resolutions passed in May, 1877, abolishing tolls and ferry dues. This is expected to add £20,000 sterling tllej revenue. A whale, 93 feet long withoutfthe head, and 28 feet wide, was washed ashore ten 1 miles from Newcastle. 1 7 : :■-, '. y v, Mr Thomas Walker has presented £2000 to ( tlwclnfants' Home at Ashfield.

The Victorian Government are granting free p 1 assesJonri the- railways to enable the unemployed to reaibh Newsouth Wales. Numbers have paß»eid'"thrbußhr Aibury. Many of them are boys, and numbe/s of them are in i deplorable co'nditStinT I*-*

, yicTOEiA, July 5. Mrs Fraser, who kept aitibuie'or* ■illrepute in Melbourne, died recently leaving £90,000 to relatives. . U

In the Inter-colonial Football Match, Victoria against South >Aji*J;raliaJ:\the latter were overmatched, and-kwt seven goals out of eight. Mr Tytherly, M.L.A., charged fon a summons at the City* Court with asaanltiugandgarotting I)rßlak6,and dismissed on a technical point which was referred to the Supreme Court. „,...,, , ■ '■■ Adelaide^ 'July Two brothers,? r Henry:; and James Cohen, arrested on a charge of embezzling money from their employer, Mr Goates, the Secretary of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, were substantially released, their friends compromising the matter. , T

The Queensland Assembly have Voted £250 per annum to Lady O'Cbnnellv ».

Further experiments made with; the process of salting beef by infiltration^ are highly successful. ' - ! ' In Western Australia a policeman has been sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment, for the manslaughter of a native assistant. 1 .■• :: "'i ■■./<;:;. : ; r; ;-.-.,,.,\