AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(Per s.s. Tabarua, at the Bluff.)
iNViCKOARGiLii, October 6th. VICTORIA.
Wben the Chimborazo left Adelaide on her last homeward-bound trip, it was rumoured that Ned Kelly was amongst her passengers. The detectives, making sure they had their man, tapped him on the shoulder, telling him he was " wanted." Hi« laogusu>.i as he turned round was couched in vigorous undeniable Fiench, ro the Kelly dtflnaion -was dispelled. Ib is said the man is an escapee from Noumea, who had run away with another man's wife, but gave her the slip before reaching port, it is said, taking her money with him. The main Exhibition building is approaching complution. The dome, whinh i« already 120 feet high, will sjon be the only unfinidhed portion. The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce has officially anuouueed that it regards tue contract with the P. aud O. Company as the moat beneficial fertile Colonies practicable under existing cireuociHt'-iPce <.
The iron clipper Ivanhoe, which went ashore at Bridgport, near Tamar Heads, in Aagnat, was brought to Melbourne very little hurt. Speculators purchased her for tinder L4OO. The property of the Au«trala»* Coal Company, on which nearly L 70.000 was ap«nt iv developing the mmc«, was purchased £»r LBSOO.
The Mint authorities received another instalment of L25.G00 worth of uew eilver.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 10
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