AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4621, 20 December 1877, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The barque Glencoe, on her voyage from Auckland to Bateman Bay, on November 30, in latitude 35deg. 22min. S , longitude 165deg. 20min. E, sighted the French barque Belle de Frontigin, Captain Allan Roux, seventy-eight days out frum Marseilles, bound for Noumea. A sea had struck the vessel off St. Paul’s, carrying away her bulwarks, stanchions, casks, and everything on deck. She had to heave a large portion of her cargo overboard. The crew had no water for thirty days, when the Glencoe relieved her. A man named Kmtz shot his wife at Thornborce, and then fired two shots at h : s own head with a revolver. The woman is dead, and the man is not expected to recover.

At Sandridge an Englishman interfered between two Greek sailors who were quar relling on board the barque James Service. He was attacked by one with a knife, and was stabbed behind the right car. He is not expected to recover. His assailant is in custody.

A salmon weighing 201b has been caught in the Derwent.

The 1 Morning Herald,’ referring to the competition in the mail services, puts the question, Whether it would not be better to withdraw the subsidy on completion of the contracts, and merely give a bounty to steamers delivering mails within a specified time ?

Itis stated that Sir W. Jervois will not visit Queensland to advise upon defence in consequence of a communication having been re ceived from the Government of that Colony that it has withdrawn from the arrangement as to defence.

The Works Committee of the Melbourne City Council, after hearing Varley’s explanation, decided to allow him the use of the Town Hall.

Morris Anger, storekeeper of Lonsdale street, Melbourne, was committed for trial on a charge of fraudulent concealment of property. Captain M'Gowan, concerned in the recent boat accident at Port Wakefield, has disappeared. A warrant is issued, and a steamer been sent to search for him, in consequence of he having left Port Wakefield in a boat, which capsize with the people who were drowned.

The blacks u Nicholson River, about 270 miles from Georgetown, murdered Tom Dalton. Deceased was a grazier, Cunningham was sentenced to death at Cooktown assizes, having been found guilty of the murder of Frank, the Austrian.