Australian Summary.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3447, 12 January 1880, Page 2

Australian Summary.

(Pee s.s. Abawata, at thb Bluff.)

(Peb Pbess Association.)

VICTORIA.

A Victoria Liberal Association hai been formed at the instance of the Corner party, %hich includes Casey, a Minister, and other prominent politicians long sup* porters of the Berry Government. They are attracting * good deal of attention,

their programme being based upon reform, retrenchment, and restoration of public confidence. A plebiscite rote is included in the programme. The Ministerial^journals fiercely attack the Association. Applications for space in tbe Exhibition are closed, except for Victoria, where it can be secured up to March 1. The total area applied for has not yet been declared. The Customs Eevenue for the last quarter is £50,056 less than for the last three months of 1878. £17,245 is re- ( corded as stamp duties up to the end of last month, when they came into opera* tion. On the 18th of that month the railway rerenue, exclusive of the old Melbourne and flobson's Bay Comp*ny's lines, ia less by £26,730 than for tbe last three months of 1878, and less by £21,640 for 1879 than 1878. The Argus contends that the actual deficit at the present time exceeds half a million, notwithstanding that the taxation has been increased by £475,000 per annum since the Berry Government took office. Seven hundred and fifty-six pennies were collected in Melbourne in a few hours to reimburse Michie for the three guineas subscription to the Summers Memorial which Berry disallowed. The Corner party held a meeting at Eagle Hawk where they were enthusiastically welcomed. Cas?y, a prominent member of the party, stated that the Ministerial Reform Bill was impossible | without a resolution. Only seven out of a field of twenty started for the Champion. First King, considered almost a certainty, was the I favorite, and won as he liked by four lengths. There was a splendid finish for third place, Petrea) beating Martindale by a short neck. Time: smin. 50|secs. Le Grand's Flaneur won the Normanby stakes, Palmyra, a strong favorite, being nowhere. The Australian Eleven in the first match against the Victorian 15 won by 82 runs. The Eleven only made 88 in the second innings. They proceed to England in March, playing several matches in the colonies in the interval. Their field* ing is splendid. The Eastern Extension Company intend to lay a cable between Manilla and Hongkong, the Spanish Government offering an annual subsidy of £9,600 for ten years. F. McPherson, of New Zealand, bought several fillies at a sale of thoroughbred horses held at Flemington. NEW SOUTH WALES. Harrison, the driver of the Windsor train at the time of the collision, has been disrated, and Carlisle, the traffic manager, severely censured and fined. The traffic inspector, Eichardson, is praised for presence of mind, which probably prevented a heavy loss of life. A petition has been signed praying the Executive to reconsider the cases of Scctt and Bogan, on the ground that none of the bushrangers shot Bowen, also that one of the jurymen was a foreigner and of unsound mind. Their petition prays merely for clemency for Bogan alone. Sir Henry Parks has lost his eldest son after a lingering illness. Fifty thousand persons visited tbe Exhibition during the Christmas holidays. The work of judging is vigorously proceeding. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Two medical men have been appointed to enquire into the reported case of Asiatic cholera. They have given a deoided opinion that the disease is a severe ease of English colera, the symptoms being somewhat similar to Asiatic cholera. An extraordinary accident happened to a farmer named Matthews, who with his wife and 2 children, were driving into Crystal Brook township. From some unexplained means, the woman's clothes caught fire, and were burned off her back; she was frightfully injured. The man was burnt about the face and hands, and the cart burnt also. QUEENSLAND. Last; quarter's revenue am<fants to £310,919, or nearly £37,000 less than the corresponding quarter of last year. The quarter's expenditure greatly exceeds the receipts. .

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