AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4705, 31 August 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Tklbsbaph.]

fTer bj. Botomahana at the Bluff.]

MELBOURNE, August 24.

Ministers are now busy with the estimates , . Heavy reductions are pobable in all directions. :

. The "Age" states that Government;, on the meeting of Parliament, will be prepared to submit several important measures, including a Bauway Bill, a Bill to Abolish Plural Toting, a BUI for Payment of Members. The Bailway Bill will be pushed rapidly through all its stages. A Constitutional Reform Bill will be introduced at an early date. Mr Hioken, the defeated candidate for Sandridge, has petitioned against Dr. Maddens return, on the grounds of bribery, undue influence, and intimidation by Dr. Madden and hie agents. Petitions are also lodged against the elections of Messrs Q-iliiee and 'Sneer, on behalf of Mr Orowle, who was disqualified, owing to the fact of an insufficient time having elapsed after his resignation of his appointment as returning officer, before he became a candidate. Mr Orowle holds the retumirg officer had no right to disqualify him, and that the question should have been referred to the Elections Qualification Committee.

Mr Tale, Attorney-General,- who was seriously indisposed for some days, is now conTslescent, and able to resume his official duties.

In consequence of the indisposition-of -Judge Nolan, Mr F. L. Bmifch has been appointed interim County Court Judge, and has commenced his duties. ;

Sir Hercules Bobinson is expected at Sydney on the twelfth, and at Melbourne on the sixteenth of September. - The Commissioner of Customs is reinstating Captain Payne. It is hoped that the temporary suspension -will be the means of presenting a recurrence of the neglect. All lights along the coast have been found to be vi perfect order. The rumor current that the police had a ewe to Kelly'e planted money is entirely un-

Mrs still in the Hospital, hut is Progressing favorably. It has been stated in *ac papars that Soudry applied to the Hospital committee on Tuesday for leave to visit «W \lwst. A motion was unanimously PMieawrojing the request Soudry has pub•J™** a letter denying that he endeavored to •"fej** interview. Afi-T 8 re-appeare at Melbourne. Adelaide; he proceeds on a "■* *«& Mr Bennett at Sydney. . SYDNEY, August 24. w ol threepence per ton on coal «*»d at Newcastleon Friday earned some f™**? 6 - A meeting of merchants and ■gents tfcoffierv proprietors resolved to wait « «» Treasurer on the subject, _* c f BJe, j •earlatina, and hooping cough are JHWJUent m Sydney. J *,^i.*! porte rom th* Southern district *«e&Bii cattle are already dying of scarcity

J*™^ l^™ 11 fires aw "parted, and, owing So!}% h win *« "n™ is feared. ;«»me eoanderable nuggete have been focnd *L£u One 'P BXi 7 obtained 106 a» n and of the schooner Queen, from Hana. reports that the Naliree of Island informed him that the «*twa,mate, and four Native eaflors, of the iCiperapzß, were maseacred by the after a dispute about trede last June. axea plundered and burnfeX

- ADELAIDE Angust 24. ; Mr To whsend, Deputy Speaker, sues the : Bank of South Australia for £10,000 damage*, for refusing a cheque. In the Badget debate, Mr Glyde censured the β-overnmeot for not endeavoring to reduce the expenditure. He considers tbe revenue over-estimated, and lie also condemns the omission of taxation proposal!. BBIBBANE, August 24. The oontinuona dry weather is affecting the crops adversely. _ Some fears of a drought are entertained. The want of young grass in the Darling distrust is much felt. : Mr Griffith, in the Assembly, has declared that the Premier's estimated revenne ia a hundred and fifty thousand pounds in exoes», and the expenditure is placed too low by seventy-four thousand. The case of the Hew Zealand Insurance Company against the North British is pronflaHfog, and is expected to la*t several days.