AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4481, 4 September 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ fßr Telbgb 4.ph.] (Per s.s. Manipouri, via Bluff.) MELBOURNE'S NEXT EXHIBITION. THE GUNGA'S PASSENGEBS. IBON TRADES' STRIKES. THE NEW QUEENSLAND BAILWAY. Melboubnb, August 29. The Assembly haß voted £80,000 for now railway stations in Melbourne A number of new candidates have announced themselves for seats in the reformed Legislative Council. Mr Clarke, one of the -sufferers by the railway accident at Windsor, obtained £1500 damagea. A verdict for £100 damagea was given againat Mr William Clark, M.L.A., proprietor of the Footsoray Advertiser, for libel. Sieber, convicted of ehooting the girl Maher in Russell street, on being asked if ho bad anything to say, requested that the death penalty might be carried out as the most merciful sentence. He will net te subjected to solitary confinement. The subscription lists distributed by the Trades' HaU Committee in aid of the Working Men's College fund aro bo far satisfactory. A Gatling gun shown at the Melbourne Exhibition was purchased by the Government, and is now aboard the Cerberus. The Chambers of Manufactures have carried a proposal as to the desirability of holding an Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne in 1884, to celebrate tho half -century jubilee of the founding of the colony. Bain haa been general during the paßt few days, but is Btill insufficient. The Southern Board found that the charges against Dra Bulmer and Max at the Quarantine Ground were not proved. A large area of coal is believed to exist in the Strzelicke Banges, Gippsland. A Te Deum was aung in all the Boman Catholic Churches on Sunday for the escape of Archbishop Goold. Sidney. The Zealandia made the fastest passage on record from Auckland to Sydney, 3 days 21 hours. On the arrival of tha steamer Gunga from Fiji, the native servant of Sir Arthur Gordon was found to be suffering from small-pox. The vessel was placed in quarantine. A special train was in waiting to convey Sir Arthur to Melbourne to catch the steamer Borne. Instead, the passengers, including Sir Arthur, were sent into quarantine. The proposal made for lighting the streets of Sydney by electricity is to be reported upon by Mr Cracknell. The workmen in the iron trades are on a Btrike for advanced wages. A new line of sailing vessels has been established between Now York and Sydney. Sting, who won the Hawkesbury Handicap in the fastest time yet made for that racp, ran last iv the County Purse two days previous. The racing people cannot understand it. Tho whole ef the passengers and crew of the Gunga, in quarantine, wore supplied with all necessary conveniences. The Fijian, whose illneßS now proves to bo undoubted small-pox, was removed to littlo Bay. The Gunga has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, and a fresh crew Bent on board. The steamer was then brought to Sydney. The team of footballers proceeded to New Zealand, por the Botomahana, on Thursday. The following were selected : — Biper (Captain), Graham, Biohmond, B. Thallon, H. Fligg, Bayliss, Walkor, W. Flynn, M'Hatchio, 0. Bygate, Barry, Mann, B. Hill, Hawkins, Howard, Butler, and Logan. They play at Auckland, Wellington, Ohristchurch, and Dunedin; returning vid Wellington to j Sydney. BBISBAjVE. The Government have concluded a provisional agreement with Messrs Shaw and Blyth, on behalf of an Australian Syndicate, for the construction of a railway on the land grant Byatem. A land bonus of 10,000 acres per mile ia to bo granted ; Government to be allowed the option of purchasing the line at half the cost price within six yeara. The land grants to be in ten mile frontages : the total length of line, about 250 mileß, to be completed in three years. A proposal for giving shipowners a bonus of £10 for overy approved immigrant brought ta Queensland has been rejected.