AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 5591, 8 February 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY Pkbkuapy 3. A'i Newcastle, Jauo M.;ck, a Se-.tvh-woman, died at bhc: asje oj rtmeiy-irine years M-.d ten months. Sho had fu !l possesion of al 1 her i.-icuities until the vme ■■■* nor iio,n--h. Through a bush, fire at Tn.ib'iaiy'e, m-ar H-athcote, a man named R>binscn was burned to death. LfS.OOO worth of 6 per cent, debentures of the borough of Sale were put into the m irker. Tenders were sent in f r L 42.000 ; all above par. Ojo institution otfjred to tike the whole at LI 12 Consideration of the charge of heterodoxy against tho Rev. Charles Stnng, of Scots' Church, Melbourne, reelecting tho atonement, has been postponed till next month. , Mr Berry has written to Mr Gaunson, asking him to retire from the Eist Melb u -i e oontest ia favor of Mr N, Lavi, the Miiiaterial cmdid'ite. Some time aro the South f7v.'f.-T. t<~> rh C'.r: ■■' : * '•' • IT) . ■ '••:-.■ - ■: ". ■ :l . 6 -.h A Ailcta .j-„ .& ~_ .*.-■ mitted i.ito tho D iminion duty free. A reply has been received deolining to enter into the proposed arrangement, on *he ground that the Canadian Government had increased the duties on all chases of imported goods

for the purpose of carrying out heavy under takings.

Mr Wa'son h2B sent in a progrcfsrepcrtof hia flyirg inrvey of the proposed Trans-con-tinental railway from Roma to Carpentaria. Ho arrived atCharleville on the 21it ult. Ho Baya the couutry is similar to that between Sfcawell and Murtoa, in Victoiia. He b.olisvo3 that an <ffic ; ent line can be conoiruotcd at a revocable cost, A third of vhe adjoining land is scrub, but balf the land will eventually come into cultivation. At unofficial report concerning the country between Charlevillu aud the boundary of South Australia staf.eo that it is level all the way, but *hcre are very faw water-courses. A meeting of i;ympaUiiserc with Mr Prf.rnell was held at Brisbane on Tuesday, Dr O'D.-glv.irty in the chair. A resolution w«a pa?sed in favor of a branch of the Laud League, aud an addreßa of thanks is to be sent to Mr Parnoll and his colleagues. T!u« rncelir># v/&i onbvly, raid exhibited gren.'., entbuniaain. Eight hundred p«raona were

Siib-Inr-pector Lanond smcl a parly &{ Nvive polijo ;*re un.ior orders to proceed to aveiige tho murder >..f For ••■-U'e time past nothinghaa bot*n he&rd from Mr Skuthorpa. The papers now express ttrorg doubts about the genuinecof;:: of the affair. '