AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3608, 20 July 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Pek s.s. City of New York.)

(Pbess Association.) . Melbourne, July 15. There are not many notable persons among the rejected at the elections. Coppin (for Collingwood), William Gannson' (for East Melbourne), Dr Knaggs (for West Melbourne), where he was formerly Returning Officer, and displaced by the Service Government on the suspicion of partiality, are about all the known names. All Orient steamers are to.be fitted with electric light signals. A. racer at South Hamilton sold for 400 guineas; Western Princess, £220. Ned Kelly is sufficiently recovered to appear at the Police Court on Monday next.

The elections were quietly conducted, but the interest never more intense.

The Argus office prepared for an illumination, anticipating a Ministerial victory. In Melbourne an immense crowd occupied the streets fronting the Argus and Age offices, and received successive announcements with cheers or groans. The people iv the crowd-appeared in favor .of the Berry party. Before the polling com* menced, the Ministry had a start of eight returned unopposed, but as the returns came in, the hopes of their party received a rapid succession of blows. Sydney, July 15. At the sale of Gibson'and Son's stud rams, annuals fetched thirty to one hundred and fifty-five guineas. Good accounts are received from Temora rush. The auriferous tract it is believed is ample for thousands more than are on the ground.

Koberfc Lither, a hatter of Sydney, died on the 10th, aged 90. He was one who signed in 1808 the paper addressed to Major Johnston, requesting him to depose Governor.Bligh. At a sale of Kermode stud merinos one ram fetched £J00; average about £20.

QUEENSLAND. Mr Beer, the new Attorney-General, took his seat yesterday. Telephonic communication has been established between tfta. business establishments belonging to Quinlan, Grey, and Co., at Brisbane, two miles apart. SOUTH AUSTBALIA.

Adeiaidb, July 14. . The Assembly has resolved to introduce bills dispensing with the necessity of nersons intending to enter the hymeneal bonds residing for seven days previously in the district where the ceremony is to be performed, also to prohibit the importation of the Tandstickor matches.

Pom Dabwik

The gold stolen froia Southport has been recovered, and a trooper named FergUßson has been arrested for robbeiy. He was aotive in seeking the criminal, and discovered the wvappers in »Chinamen's garden fbuv hundred yards distant from the office.. He arrested four Chinamen at the post office. Cook and While escorted them to * Palmerston. Another trooper suspecting the captor, searched his box and found the gold.