AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4081, 20 August 1884, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(per manapouri at the bluff.) Melbourne, August 13. The Governor visited Sandhurst on Friday, anel Avas enthusiastically received. The hearing of evidence in the case Bell v. Clarke has been concluded, and judgment lias been reserved.

Sir Thomas MTlwraith, late Premier of Queensland, Avas a passenger by the Yarra, from England, and left on Monday for Brisbane.

The Government havo decided that each of tho seven mining districts in the colony shall bo supplied at Government expense with diamond drills and mon to Avork them for one year, to thoroughly prospect new localities for gold. Cases of small-pox continue to be reported from time to time, but no general alarm seems to be felt, beyond the fact of many persons being vaccinated. James Hawthorn, the Brighton murderer, Avill be executed. The Avork of repairing the Tasmauian cable is proving more troublesome than Avas at first expected. Tho full Court Iliac given judgment in the Salvation Army case, the decision being that processions are illegal Avithout proper permission. Brisbane, August 12. The shearers on Milo's station, near Adavalo, recently struck Avork. The local court fined them £5, Avith the alternative of a month's imprisonment in Roma gaol. Twenty-six elccided to take imprisonment, causing great confusion at Adavalo, as the lock-up only accommodated six. Lakes Creek Meat Preserving Works, which Avere recently burned down, Avere opened again yesterelay. Sydney, August 13.

A serious collision occurred on Saturday night between Howard Smith's steamer Barrabool and the A.S.N. Company's Birksgato. When just off Bradley's Head the Barrabool struck the Birksguto's starboard side forward, and inflicte-d such injuries that the Birksgato had to be beached. She Avas, however, patched up and removed to tho A.SIN. Works. A fireman on the Barrabool Avas injured in tho collision. Gerald Massey has commenced a scries of lectures. The 3fessagerics steamer Duplex, from Noumea, reports that quarantine regulations are being strictly enforced against vessels from Australia. Adelaide, August 13. Fifty thousand pounds have been subscribed in Adelaide towards the construction of an ocean dock. The Treasurer, in introducing the Financial Statement, said the debt of tho colony Avas £15,511,500. A peculiar case has been brought under the notice of Judge Boucaut. A firm of solicitors, Fara anel Young, Avho Avere defending a man named Mudio for forgery, Availed on tho prosecutor and pressed him to Avithdraw the charge, using throaty in case ho refused. The Crown solicitor brought the matter under the notice of the Court. The matter will be investigated by the Law Society. Tho small-pox patients at Eordertown are eloing well. At a meeting of tho unemployed, 150 names Avcro given iv as out of AVeirk, onethird being carpenters. Resolutions Avcro passeel adverse to immigration.