AUSTRALIAN NEWS
[By Telegraph.]
[Per s.s. Australia, at Auckland.]
SYDNEY, November 30,
Great excitement is caused by the elections, and there is a general impression that Government will not secure a majority in the new House.
The criminal Cunningham was executed at Goulbourne on Wednesday. He was quite callous to the last, and cursed the Queen horribly. No clergymen were present.
Valuable city properties were offered for sale on the 29th, Punch’s, corner Pitt and King streets, being passed in at .£31,000, and Hoffman’s store in Pitt street at .£15,000. Operations on the Austral are suspended owing to a cablegram received from London. The Board intended pumping the vessel out by hydraulic process. A meeting of the Church of England clergy passed a resolution in favor of open air preaching to the masses where necessary and practicable. The amount owing by Saber and Company in this colony amounts to about AGOOO. MELBOURNE, November 30. Sir William Jervois is now on a visit to the Governor.
The University have appointed five new professors. Sir W. J. and Mr Joseph Clarke have been banquetted by the Council of Trinity College, in recognition of their magnificent donations. ADELAIDE, November 30. Mr J. 11. Angus has sold some of his northern runs to a company, the price paid being from £300,000 to .£350,000.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2702, 5 December 1882, Page 3
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