Late Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4649, 28 November 1883, Page 2

Late Australian News.

(Pbe Press Association.) (Pee s.s. Manapoubi, at Auckland.) Sydney, November 23. Lord Roseberry, since his arrival in the eoloay, has been busy visiting the different public institutions, and has exj :essed himself generally well pleased. To day a party consisting of the Governor, Lady Loftus, Earl and Countess Roseberry, Sir William and L.dy Desvoux, Baron Hubner, aid Mr Eustace Smith (M.P. for Teignmouth), proceeded to the Blue Mountains, with the object of seeing the scenery. . An important resumption of city pro* pertyas about to be madeJßy Government with the object of forming a wide street, connecting George and Pitt street on the north side of the general Post Office. In the action brought by Mrs Falconer to recover damages on account of the death of her husband by a tram accident in April last, the jury gave a verdict for £3,5G0. The balance sheet of the Hampson Mission shows a credit balance of £87. Bbisbane. , The Hon. — Eutledge, AttorneyGeneral, has been returned unopposed. The captain, a Government agent, the second mate, and two of. a crew of the labor schooner Alfred Vittery, have been committed for trial at Maryborough, for the alleged murder of a Kanaka on board. Melbouene. Myriads of locusts are swarming in the Sandhurst district. - H.M.S. Nelson has been float, d out of the dock after a thorough cleaning.. Speaking atGeelong, the Hon. Graham Berry said that parties had coalesced on equal tetms, and there had been no attempt to gain any undue advantage on either side. Mr John Mclntyre is about to visit England, in order to induce British capitalists to invest in Victorian mines. Morton, a defaulter from England, vras arrested aboard the steamer Aberdeen on its arrival. : .-. .;■.-.. ,