AUSTRALIAN-SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 397, 18 April 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN-SUMMARY.

_?_ (PBB ROTOBtrA AT AUOKEAWD.) Stdwbt, 12th April. [ A torpedo boat steaming 17 knots, cut clear through a small craft in harbor. Two women and two children were rescued with diincttlty'. Enormously rich quartz has been struck at Barrington, only forty hours' journey from Sydney. The cost of the journey is £2. There is s'rong evidence of a serious split amongst the Newcastle colliers with reference to the vend system, which they find touches their pockets. - ' The bal-que Gazelle, from the Solomon Islands, has arrived. All the crew are in a 1 most piuable conditien, having suffered terribly from fever au<J ague. The barque was navigated nearly the wholp Yoyagß by Captain Ron all and the steward, the seamen being all too feeble to render any assistance. A boat belonging to the schooner Stanley was capsized on tbe coast. The mate was drowned, but the crew managed to f>wim ashore, and had ta' live, with tho natives, as tho master, thinking they wero drowned, sailed away without them. Foley*, Mace, Thompson, and Hicken, charged at' 'the Momoa Police Court with a breach of the peace by fighting a prize fight, were dlscfiargeaV The police failed to prove that- the fight was a prize fight. Con way is trying to secure the management of the New South Wales team of cricketers for England. It fa generally thought that he has very little change of succeeding, as there is tome unexplained lVeling against him on the part of the . loading New S^uth Wales cricketers. Aii exciting rumor gains currency to the effect that an engagement between the Kelly gang and the troopers has taken place, and that the leader of tha bushrangers and eight policemen have been shot dead. Cook played Kilkenny 750 up, giving him 180 points Kilkenny only reached 407. Cook made three breaks of over 100 each. Out of nine games of pyramids Kilkenny won five. Fourteen hundred men are working at the International Bxhtb'tion building. The Altttralian Agricultural Company have thrown open Port Stevens Land to miners, and offer £1000 reward for the discovery of payable goldfields. News from New Caledonia states that the French Admiral has recently decided to annex New Guinea. Jadene, the only remaining petty rebel in Boulapari district, with a few comrades, have been captured and killed.