Additional Items.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3467, 4 February 1880, Page 2

Additional Items.

VICTORIA

Correspondence between the Banks and Government has been published. Mr Berry informed the Banks the Government would be in debt all the next six months, requiring to start with an overdraft of £470,000.

The' Land Act Amendment Bill has passed the principal stages, the. Assembly giving rather more favorable terms to selectors.

Nearly 200,000 electors are on the hew rolls, and it is expected the elections will be all completed by February the 9th. . Ihe Government new railway scheme includes 410 miles of lim\ The estimated cost of construction is £2,394,428, which includes rails. ' ' '

A man named Wm. Grant has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. He asserted his first wife died in Oamaru Hospital, but the woman turned up in Melbourne. The Minister of Railways is building two railway carriages for the use of the Prince of Wales. The metropolitan brewers employed four analystical chemists to- advise the best.means of 6leaning bottles containing poison. The" colonial beer scare is subsiding. The Melbourne Irish Famine Fund exceeds. £9300. ■ «. NEW SOUTH "WALES. The Assembly counted out while debating Buchanan's motion in favor of protective duties. v-.

The slackness of trade in the coal miniDg distrticta of the Hunter river is producing much hardship among the miners and their families, and'unless a revival takes place an appeal for assistwilj have to be sent out. Many families are already absolutely in want. . '..-•

Mr P. A. Jennis is preparing some very ; beautiiul albums containing views of the Garden Palace, for presentation to the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Carlotta Patti openß at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, February 23rd. The Irish Relief Fund exceeds £9000. TSie Chinese contributed upwards of £1000.

It is suggested that the Exhibition buiiding be converted into a huge wool store. . A domestic servant named -Williams, a handsome girl 18 years of age, poisoned herself through disappointed love. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Leffoy, the new Colonial Treasurer, has arrived., The latest English Westgarth's circular reports tbe last New Zealand loan promises to be the leading stock in its mvn class. Some of the German papers foolishly charge the British Gorerriment with causing the failure of Goddefroy and Co., ia order to secure Samoa. Fice-Admiral Sir Fred Beauchamp Seymour, formerly Commodore, Commanding H.M.S. Pilgrous on the Australian station, succeeds Admiral Hornby in command of the Mediterranean fleet.

Private enterprise has established a depot in the Crozet-Islands.~ . A Portugese named Pulilou, obtained judgment in Jamacia for £14,000 damages against Sir Authorny Musgr'ave, the Governor, for the detention of.his vessel, named the Florence. The Governor pleaded an act of state, the Privy Council upheld the'decision of the inferior court. A bust of the late Bishop Selwyn has been presented to Mr Selwyn from the Clerical Dignitaries of Lichfield Diocese.