Australian Summary.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3386, 29 October 1879, Page 1

Australian Summary.

(Pjj* s.s. Bijjgasooma, at the Blutf.)

(Fjbk Fsess Association.)

VICTORIA. The stamp duties are expected to yield £103,000 a year. The Minister of Public Works hat notified that any employee of the Public Works, Post Office or Telegraph Departments who engages in betting or horseracing or gambling will not be considered fit to remain in the service of the Go▼ernment. The 25 ih anniversary of the Age was celebrated by a banquet to the proprietors. The employees presented Mr Darid Syzno with his portrait in oils. Mr Berry spoke eulogistical iy of the Age. It is rumored that a gentleman interested has sent to Cornwall for 300 miners, paying the expenses of the voyage out, and guaranteeing work at stated wages. The KeUys ia the field agtin. Xyneton banks hare been warned to be on the alert, as it is rumored that it is the intention of the Kellys to stick up the town.

W. J. Clarke, Esq., hat given £1000 for a college scholarship. The mystery as to the paternity of the infant bora by the " wife" of Ellen Tremayne, alias Da Lacy Evans, has been solved by Mrs Evans summoning a resident of Sandhurst for maintenance for the child. The Hospital Sunday collection realised over £3000 in Melbourne already. - Two lads aged 13 and 14 years eon* mitted a criminal assault on a girl of 16 years. Swing News. The Cop hones are training steadily. Le Loup, who is training very satitfac* torily, still stands well in the public estimation. The latest betting is 6 to 1 against Secundus, 7 to 1 against Savanaka, 10 to 1 againat Eicbmond, Wandering Jew, and Sweetmeat; 12 to 1 against Le Loup. Fortjfrthree horses have paid up for the Melbourne Cup the same as last year. The other races are well filled. Sir Arthur Gordon is taking steps to transfer the capital of Fiji from Levuka to Suva. NEW SOUTH WALES. The collision on the Northern line injured 140 persons, but the majority only slightly. Two ladies received broken ribs and another concussion of the brain. It has been. reported to the Mining Department that a man has found payable gold in a blind creek 3 miles from Murrumbidgce. It is believed the district will tarn out to be a good goldfield. QUEENSLAND. The Eastern Australian Company and Holt's line tendered for the new Torres straits service, and it is believed a greatly increased subsidy will be required. Cobb's coach was stuck up beyond Boma, and a constable on the box seat arrested the bushrangers, who have been committed for trial. TASMANIA. Sail, who reported the discovery of an extensive alluvial goldfields on the Dorset river, concealed himself in the bush when the gold commissioners arrived. Numbers of miners arrived on the ground, but accepted the disappointment in good humor.