INTERCOLONIAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1062, 28 January 1879, Page 6

INTERCOLONIAL.

Sto net, January 25. ! Arrived : The mail steamer at Albany. Passengers for New Zealand — Messrs Reddi- . ford (2), Mrs Reddiford. ; The Wakatipu bas arrived. ' Hennessy's brandy, 33s 6d to 33a 9d ; Adelaide wheat, 5s to 5s 3d • New Zealand oats, 3s to 3s 3d ; others unchanged. ; The Chinese Immigration Restriction Bill has been debated in the Assembly. j The third biennial mesting of the Australian Agency Banking Corporation was satisfactory. The reserve fund is now £20,000. I -The ladies of Cam perdown presented Mrs Gibson with a buggy and harness, in recognition of her unwearied kindness to the survivors of the Loch Ard. A fierce affray occured on board tbe ship Frith of Tay. Tbe cook shot at the sailmaker, but missed. They then closed, and he knifed the sailmaker, whose face and neck were horribly hacked. Forty-six Coalcliff miners have joined the Union , influenced by the Bulli strike. An influental Home Commission has been appointed for the Exhibition, including Earl Belmore, Sir Daniel Cooper, Mr Forster (Agent-General), Mr Lowe (M.P.) and Sir Cunliffe Owen. Melbourne, January 25. Wild, Wright, and 13 others, confederates of the Kelly ging, were brought before the Beechworth Court to-day and remanded for a week for the attendance ot police witnesses who are out after the Kellys.