AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1837, 12 January 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Via Bluff.] VICTORIA. A Liberal Association has been formed at the instance of the “Corner party,” which includes Casey and other prominent politicians, long supporters of the Berry Government. It is attracting a good deal of attention. Their programme is based upon reform, retrenchment, and the restoration of public confidence. The plebiscite is not included in the programme. The Ministerial journals fiercely attack the Association, which substantially favors Mr Service’s proposal. Applications for space in the Exhibition are closed except for Victoria, where they will be received up to March Ist. The total area applied for is not yet declared. The Customs revenue for the last quarter is £50,056 lees than for the last three months of 1878. £17,245 was received as Stamp duties up to the end of last month. They came into operation on tho 18th of that month. The railway revenue, exclusive of the old Melbourne-Hobson’s Bay company’s lines, is less by £26,730 than in the last three months of 1878, and less by £34,640 in 1879 than in 1878,

The “ Argus” contends that the actual deficit at the present time considerably exceeds half a million, notwithstanding that taxation has been increased by £475,000 per annum since the Berry Government took office.

Seven hundred and fifty-six pence were collected in Melbourne in a few hours to reimburse Sir A. Miohie’s three guinea subseription to the Summers memorial, which Mr Berjy disallowed. The corner party held a meeting at Eaglehawk, where they were enthusiastically welcomed. Mr Casey, a prominent member of the party, stated that the Ministerial Reform Bill was impossible without a revolution. Only seven out of a field of twenty-two started for the Champion, owing to Eirat King being considered almost a certainty. The favorite won as he liked by four lengths. There was a splendid finish for the third place, Petrea beating Martindale by a short neck. Time, smin. 40£sec. Grand Flaneur won the Norman by Stakes, Palmyra, a strong favorite, being nowhere. The Australian Eleven were defeated in the first match by the Victorian Fifteen, which won by 82 runs, the Eleven only making 88 in their second innings. They proceed to England in March, playing several matches in the colonies in the interval. Their fielding is splendid. The Eastern Extension Company intend laying a cable to Manilla and Hong Kong, the Spanish Government offering an annual subsidy of £O6OO for ten years, Mr F. McPherson, of New Zealand, bought several fillies at the sale of thoroughbred horses held at Flemingtou. NEW SOUTH WALES. Harrison, the driver of the Windsor train, at the time of the collision, has been disrated. The Carlisle traffic manager was severely censured and fined. The traffic inspector, Richards, was praised for his presence of mind which probably prevented a heavy loss of life. A petition is being signed praying the Executive to reconsider the cases of Scott and Rogan on the ground that none of the bushrangers shot Bowen, also on the ground of one of the jurymen being a foreigner, and of unsound mind. Another petition prays for mercy for Bogan alone. Sir Henry Parkes has lost his eldest son, after a lingering illness. Fifty thousand persons visited the Exhibition during the Christmas holidays. The work of judging is vigorously proceeding. It is stated that Bishop Barker is conse crating the Wesleyan Chapel before consenting to marry the Sneaker’s daughter in it. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The two medical men who were appointed to er quire into a reported case of Asiatic cholera, have given a decided opinion that the disease is a severe case of English cholera. The symptoms are somewhat similar to those of the Asiatic cholera. An extraordinary accident happened to n farmer named Matthews, who, with his wife and two children, were driving into Crystal Brook township, when by some unexplained means, the woman’s clothes caught fire, and were burnt off her back. She was frightfully injured, and the man was burnt about the face and hands. The cart waj burnt also. A fatal affray took place at Choker Island, Northern Australia. One man was toma hawked by the natives, and several lubras were killed.

QUEENSLAND. The last quarter’s revenue is £310.919, or nearly £37,000 less than for the corresponding quarter of last year. The quur er’s expandidituro greatly exceeds the receipts.