AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3349, 16 September 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbovbnx, This day.

Tbo cable is interrupted between Batavia and Singapore. A steamer leaves Batavia at noon tomorrow, conveying all messages. Sydney", September 15. The Governors of Victoria and Tasmania, with their private secretaries, arrived to-day. The Exhibition buildings hare been completed, and the opening ceremony takes place on Wednesday, and promises to be a grand spectacle. s . . Meluoubnb, September 15. The Government have signed a convention witU the P. and O. Company, providing'for the discontinuance of the Southampton mails. ■

It is intended to prosecute the directors and masager of the Provincial and Suburban-Bank for conspiracy.

(Peb s,B. Abawata at the Bluff.)

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London, September 2.

The following rcssels have arrived :■*- Argyieshire, ship, from Wallaroo; Bellona and West Cork, barques, from Fort Augusta; G-rad, schooner, from. Fort McDonald; Elizabeth, barque, J from Samoa. Singapobe, September 9. Arrived: Hengist, ship, from Newcastle, August 11th; Jubilee, ship, from Sydney. ! Manilla, July 20. Arrived: Hope, barque, from Newcastle. ' Batavia, September 10. The Philippine, barque, from Hongkong to Melbourne, put in here, baring been ashore on the Tokat reef, Wallis' Straits. After jettisoning thirty tons of cargo, she got off without assistance, and thence came here to ascertain rbat damage she had received.

(fhom the Auckland Stab.)

London, September 12. Secretary Ewarts, of the United Stales Government, visited the Marquis of Lome at Toronto, and a cordial internet took place, The British force hare occupied the heights of Thulurgurdon. The British Embassy has quitted Man. dalay, Burmah, fearing that they may be massacred in the present temper of the people. . , '■' The inhabitants of the district of Herat are hostile. Londok, September 13. The rebellion in Afghanistan is spreading amongst the tribes. The advance of the British troops is delayed. General Boberts telegraphs that ho doubts the possibility of the troopi making a dash at Cabul. Cetewayo it still at large, notwithstandhis offer to surrender, but a British expedition is preparing to pursue him.