AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4637, 11 June 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[T3T TEIiBQBAPH.]

[Per s.s. Tararua, at Busseli.J

NEW SOUTH WALES.

A further extension of the Great Western Railway, viz., from Orange to Wellington, of fifty-six miles, was formally opened on th» let inst. The total distance from Sydney it 247 miles.

Tiro prisoners who unaccountably escaped from gaol at Port Maoquarrie hare been re* captured. A third is at large. Further disoloeuree in connection with the deficiencies in the ticket department of the Exhibition are foreshadowed.

The " Daily Telegraph throws strong double on the assumption that Port Briton, for whioh the G-enii steamer was cleared, was in New Ireland. It offers the opinion that _it v intended to occupy by foroe and colonise all that portion of Western Australia north or Perth. It publishes a full translation of the 'original prospectus to that effeot. ■ Matters at Newcastle continue disturbed. Several collieries are engaging laborers to replace the miners on strike, and great imtation is resulting. Mr Layard, formerly member for the diitriot, .endeavoring to mediate, but the men are preparing- for a protracted struggle. , At ten o'clock on the night of June 3rd the manager of the Commercial Bank at Quirindi was working late, and going to the stable to feed his horses, he was tailed up by three masked robbers with revolvers. Contrary to rule, he had the check key of the safe, which should have been nightly banded to the Sergeant of Police. He managed to drop it while being conveyed to the Bank, and pwtended that he had not got it. Ultimatelyhe was intimidated and the safe robbed. The robbers having drunk a bottle of whiskey became Iviolent, and the manager's wife ana sister were bailed up. £485 werettaken, helf in gold, bnt they overlooked £200 in not* They then departed about one o'olock in tne morning. The township police and toe assistant clerk were absent on duty. The schooner Avoca, from Solomon klande, arrived at Sydney on June 2nd. Shebrongh* a young gentleman who belonged to the party at New Ireland sent by the Marquis de ; Buys in the Ohandernagore. He states wsailed from Flushing on September l«fc There were 100 men on board. They hed » beautiful passage to Island, nitM South Sea. In. accordance with previout"' raneement the men, under command of Jar XTo&ngH'/wW" allowed to settle on the isJMW. where the natives were most fnendJy. **"£ had provisions for three months landed, but seven more were landed for, ana it is feared that they are «Jgg from want, as they have been the Chandernagore proceeded to Ne where the other immigrants were lMM"?. two detachment., under Jβ MoLftUghUft «* «.■■>»■■■• ' ■

1£ D. Ls Cm, at different places. Fever and ague, with other disease* peculiar to this ftiand, broke out. The men worked ingoftrioujly, but six dajs after landing only three were capable of exertion, and no medicine or physical comforts were obtainable. She natives informed the immigrants that titers were plenty of whites on the Duke of York Island, and after several attempt! a boat, while endeavoring to reach, that island, ■wai picked up by the Tipple, a trading steamer.