Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3991, 13 October 1881, Page 2

Australian News.

(PER S.S. CITY OF NEW YORK.)

Mr T; G. Waterhouso has made a conditional gift of £1000 to the Prince Alfred College. . . . * In the Queensland Assembly a petition was presented from sugar planters in various parts of the colony, praying that the regulations for the introduction of coolies from British India be carried into operation. . ■ A splendid gold and silver goblet, over twelve inches high, solid and massive, subscribed for by a number of Australian residents in London, has been received from Major Sargood for presentation to the highest scorer in any intercolonial cricket match of the coming season. The perpetrator of the Bank of Victoria robbery has not yet been arrested, but it io said that the police have now a good clue as to his discovery. One of the bank officials is supected. , The Victorian Government have preseated to the House a report ou the cost of diamond drills vow iv use. The drills

have ost about £7000. and the boring has cost from 7s 6d to 12s per foot. 22,000 feet have been bored altogether. The contents of tho stomach of the boy Kenny, who died at Healesville last week through eating currant bread, given to his father by a selector named King, have been analysed, and found to contain strychnine. v An allotment of land in Little Collins street, Melbourne, having a frontage of 56 feet and a depth of 150 feet, was sold to the Hon. Henry Miller for £22,003. , The South Australian Government has adopted the recommendation of the Sparrows Commission to pay 6d per dozen for sparrows' heads and 2s 6J per 100 for eggs, the postmasters and coo* stables of infested districts to pay the money.