NEW SOUTH WALES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3484, 24 February 1880, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

A Compromise,

The Assembly fixed the period for secular instruction in the State schools four hours each day, and religious instruction one hour, the attendance of the children being obligatory for a certain.period of each half.

The Government intend to propose the amalgamation of the Government and Post Office Saving Banks. '■ The Assembly refused to prohibit the purchase of any articles required for the public service from members of Parliament. This step created a profound sensation, as Sir E. Parkea promised to consult his colleagues on the subject. Several steamers are laid up at New. castle owing to the collieries being unable to supply coals, being in excess of the vend.

A strange occurrence is reported from Goulbarn. A young man named CharU? Nober, while engaged in wallah* shooting, called at a house at. Abejcrombie, and remained all night. Nejt morning, on going out he saw • hat, u4 V

asked who lived there, he was told two lads shepherding. He walked up to and fired at the hut, and then reloaded his gun, and on one of the lads coming out Sober fired at him, and the ball lodged in his body, when Nober ran off. The ball has not been extricated. Merit Rewarded. Arrangements are being made to give a banquet to P. N. Gennings, Executive Exhibition Commissioner, probably before the foreign Commissioners leave, when a testimonial will also be presented to him. Mr Dufaur and other subscribers to the Hume expeditiou some six years ogo are taking steps to equip an expedition to attempt to find the half castes mentioned in Mr Seulthorpe's present letter, with & view to obtain information of Leichardt's party. There is a probability of the prominent footballers of Sydney joining the proposed team to England. Trickett has accepted a challenge from J. Punch to row round Port Denison and Goat Island in 26 minutes, Punch laying £2000 to £250.