AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5222, 13 October 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Received October 13, 12.30 p.m.)

Sydney, This day. An affray took place last nights near Newcastle, between a body of navvies and the police; the situation eventually became so serious that the police were compelled to fire upon the assailants, wounding several—one seriously. "

The Hon. G. E. Dibbs, Colonial Treasurer, in addressing a public meeting last night, stated that although the esti mates of the Government as regards TTBtobtio —fend—OT>t~- bßeiS~feilißea7~Stffl™lf would not be necessary to impose fresh taxation.

[Age Specials, pee s.s. Wa^atipu.]

London, October 6. Lieut.-General H. F. Ponsonby, Keeper of Her Majesty's Privy Purse, has denied the statement which has been published to the effect that Her Majesty has amassed a fortune amounting to £3,000,000 during her reign.

It has been definitely resolved that the sentence of death passed upon Louis Biely the Canadian rebel, shall be carried out, unless the appeal that has been made by the prisoner to the Privy Council should result favorably to him.

(Special to Melboobne Age.)

London, October 4. A subscription is about to be opened here with the object of raising funds to prpvide a new equipment for Mr H. O. Forbes, jthe explorer, who was despatched to New Guinea by the Boyal Geographical Society, but who lost his outfit while en route at Thursday Island through an accident to the vessel in which it was bejog transferred. . The looming Post advocates the separation' pf Northern from Southern Queensland. Mr Finch JJatton, one of the members for South Lincolnshire in the House of Commons, who recently visited the Australian colonies, has asserted ' that the statesmen of Queensland hare been robbing the colony for the purpose of filling their own pockets,

The funeral service of the Earl of Shaftesbury' was solemnised to-day in Westminster Abbey, but the interment took place at Dorset.