AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. [PER ROTORUA AT THE BLUFF.]

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 515, 21 May 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. [PER ROTORUA AT THE BLUFF.]

Mblbouehb, 18th May. The Exhibition Buildings are progressing favorably. They are costing a large sum oT money; it is estimated already to amount to £13,000, while it is proposed to expend £10,000 in enclosing the ground with iron railings. The brickwork of the main building will probably be out of hand in about ten weeks. Everything connected with the undertaking is being carried out in a most expensive manner. The space supposed to be covered is equal to that of the first Exhibition ia Hyde Park. There have been several failures of importance, including that of Messrs. Solcberg and . Son, clothing manufactures, with liabilities bf £31,469, and assets £34,119 ; Joseph Aarons, proprietor of the Academy of Music and of the Victoria Arcade, liabilities £69,619, assets £93,360 (this estate is said to show well for the creditors) ; and Messrs. Myers and Zox, warehousemen, with liabilities of £140,000. Another English Cricketing Eleven composed entirely of professionals, is to visit .'Australia during the period of the Melbourne Exhibition. Mr. Boyle, of tbe Australian Eleven, has the management of the affaire. Edward Monk, of Wombat, who received several threatening letters, is now before a court of enquiry, as doubts have been thrown upon bis statements. The whole affair is now. being thoroughly sifted. A rather extraordinary case of imposture was lately discovered. A young lad giving the name of Alfred Pearce told several persons a piteous tale of want and privation, saying he was a recent arrival. His case excited great sympathy, and donations of money were given him and employment provided, when it was discovered that Pearce was not his name, and that he was a Jewish lad, who bad been in the colony some years, and had performed similar tricks before. He has been sent to gaol for a year as a vagrant. There are occasional rumors concerning the Kelly gang, but they usually prove to be scares. The latest report comes from the direction of Dandenong, where four mounted men appeared in the ranges and demanded food from some settlers. A host of police are now out in search. The weather has been cold, with intervals of rain, which extended over the whole country. The rainfall has been sufficiently copious to fill the water-holes, and give much benefit.