AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (PER PRESS AGENCY ) Melbourne, 27th February.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 360, 5 March 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. (PER PRESS AGENCY ) Melbourne, 27th February.

Ueyers, t&e secretary of the Protestant Alliance, whose clothes were found on the beach at Cheltenham, has beeu arrested and charged 1 js a defaulter. He was hiding for a month ia the Gippsland bush. At the sale of the Wonga stud, Tim Whiffle* brought the highest price, four hundred guineas. Ei ? b . t K ?! ly B y m Pathi«erß have been remanded to Beech worth. At a meeting of the creditors of Ben» and Ramef?. of Brisbane, the statement prepared by the firm showed the liabilities to he £40,000, assets equal to 20s in the pound, £20.000 due to European creditor*, £10,000 to firms and bankers, a>sooo to local creditors It was da*, cided to wind up tho estate. The Adelaide Register oalculatcs, from Information obtained from all parts of tbe colony, that the average result of the harvtst Is a> slight fraction over, seven bushels per acretotal 91,000,000) bushels, leaving a surplus o£ 170,000 tons for export. - Newspapers in all parts of Victoria condemn the late mction of Q'Loghlen, in what Li called gapping the Press." Quarterly abstracts show the estimated! population of Victoria on 31«t December, 1878.. as 478 311 males, 401,095 females; total 879,387— being an, increase, singe Q&rae <Lv»

1877 of 10,570 males and 8720 females. The finance committee of the City Council of Adelaide intend to recommend the lighting of the city with kerosene. Two armed men stuck up M'Millan's stoo at Dubbo. One shot was fired, but no one was wounded.