AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4590, 20 September 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Received Sept. 20,1.15 p.m]. Melbopbne, This day. Arrived, this morning, Te Anau from the Bluff.

Sydney, This day. Sailed, yesterday afternoon, the steamship Wakatipu, for Wellington. Arrived, this morning, the Hauroto from Wellington.

Bbisbane, This day.

The emigrants by the steamship Duke of Westminster, placed in quarantine for small-pox, will be released on Monday nest.

Melbotjbne. Yesterday.

In the Legislative Assembly this evening, Mr James Service, the Premier, replying to a question, took occasion to remark that Lord Derby completely failed to appreciate the importance to Australia of the deportation of French convicts to the Pacific Islands. He declared that if England permitted this deportation the colonies would themselves be obliged to devise means for the prevention of the convicts landing on their shore 3. He considered that the French proposal to populate the Pacific Islands with criminals from the French cities wai contrary to the acknowledged principles of international comity, and justified the abrogation of any agreement bet ween the English and French Governments with regard to those islands. A debate on the question ensued on the motion for adjournment. Various speakers unanimously declared that such a calamity must be averted by any means.

Probate on the will of the late Archbishop Vaughan was granted to-day, the property being sworn at £61,828. A large attendance is expected at St. Mary's Cathedral to morrow, when Bishop Redwood will deliver a panegyric on the deceased prelate.

Bank RoVbery at Melbourne. A y daring and unaccountable robbery has been perpetrated at the Commercial Bank of Australasia in this city. Sixteen bars of gold were deposited in the safe last night by Mr Pinnock, manager of the branch bank at Ballaraty who took possession of one of the keys of the safe, another officer of the bank keeping the second key. It was noticed this morning that the key«hole of the safe was obstructed, and on opening the safe it was found that fourteen of the bars of gold were missing, besides £IC3O in notes and gold coin. No clue to the robbery has yec been discovered. The stolen are useless, having been cancelled. % Lateb.—This dayNo clue has yet been obtained as to the perpetrator of the robbery at the Commercial Bank. In now transpires that no sovereigns but only the bars of gold and notes were stolen, The theft appears to have been most skilfully effected.