AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5562, 17 July 1883, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Tklkjbaph.] ! [Per &s. Tarawera, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, July 10. No change has taken place in connection -with the wrecks of the George Roper and Slack Boy. There is considerable excitement in the locality, which *""» not abated in the least. Attempts are still being made to recover cargo. The Premier has received an intimation from the Agent-General, stating that the Under Secretary for the Colonies assures him that he knows nothing of the proposal "to eend the Irish informers to the Colonies. The present intention of the Government is to pay the informers certain sums money and protect them only as long as they remain in Ireland. A petition from Sandhurst to the Legislative Assembly states that the mining stocks of Sandhurst have decreased in •value JEBO,OOO in one day. A disgraceful disturbance, in which a member of Parliament, a Justice of the Peace, and a Licensing Magistrate took prominent parts, occurred in Bourke street, -at a late hour on the sth instant, arising -out of an M.L.A. lighting a cigar in a ladies' dining-room. Oa Saturday aftenooa a man, name

unknown, rushed on the railway toe just aa the Sydney down train w»a leaving NaWßadera. Hβ -was knocked down ana - Bedmond Bros, have been the cause of a split between Father McKenna and the Soman Catholics at Fitzroy. Mr Bedmond appliedfor the use of a schoolroom for a meeting, which Father McKenna refused, wterSpfn the ladies of the congregation efforts fora bazaar in aid of the church, handed in their subscription liets,and refuse to The rev. gentleman was still rurther surBrisedtofind a number of Catholic residents refused to subscribe to Church Son the result being he has reconsidered the matter, and now agrees to preside over the meeting shortly to be held. Several waterspouts have been visible at Port Adelaide, but no damage was done.