AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4941, 3 January 1879, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Peb Claud Hamilton, at Hokitika.} The Henderson parody on the embassy has had an amusing ending. It was intended that he should be sent Home by the mail steamer with the other ambassadors, but the agent of the P. and O, Co. refused to receive him as a passenger. The Government brought pressure to bear on the company, who, in view of the fact that the new mail contract will shortly have to be considered, were open to conviction, J , . , , , The police Seem to be no capturing the Kelly gang; nor has Weiberg, the Avoca gold robber,'been re-captured, ’ ' Mr Ss, r P. 'Winter., of ..Murudal;' a colonist of forty-four years* standing, died bn Christmas Day.;, and the Eev., Donald Loudon, of St. Francis’s Church, died on the samb iday. ' On December' 24 a collision between the Esaendon passenger train dnd a pilot engine with' ca'rriageSi : ' took place. Though the trains were not travelling at a great speed the sheck was a sharp,~one> and several of the passengers were a good deal shaken. The ‘.Argils ’ in ; its,summary for England, has published a return of all the measures rejected by the : Legislative, Council, since the inauguration of responsible .Government, ' concerning .which; ithsays; that itr’ia; shown,that the Couucilbas-’done: no .moj© than exercise a . suspensive, veto, and has done even ''that 'with: marked o ’modification and ' “Dearest, let’s pool issues,” is the latest form of axrvT