LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1327, 30 October 1872, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COMMUNICATION BY CABLE RESTORED. [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Melbourne, Oct. 24. Cable communication has been restored. Messages are being sent to and received from Europe, and the line is working most satisfactorily. The Education Bill is made strictly secular and compulsory. No successor to the Governor is yet named. A line of steamers is to be run early next year from Batavia to the Colonies every seventy-five days, by the Nether-lands-India Company. Adam Burns, late manager of the Colonial Bank, is appointed manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, at a salary of L3OOO. The Catholic Bishop has issued another protest against the Education Bill. The Government are favorable to the Imperial proposal of a new mail service; take all responsibility, and invite cooperation of other Colonies, with Melbourne to be the tsrminus. They are not averse to a subsidy to the Californian route. Twenty-five horses paid the final deposit for the Cup. New Zealand wheat, 7s to fa Bd. Tookey's, paid, wanted at 75a ; sellers, 82s Bd. Sydney, Oct. 24. Very rich stone has been obtained in the Tambaroora claims. A shock of earthquake has been felt in various parts of the Colony. The Opera Company leave for Auckland on the 11th. The Nukulau kidnapping case reveals atrocities similar to those of the Carl. ' The Anglican Synod completed a new Church Constitution. -<, Adelaide, Oct. 24. A demonstration is to be given to Todd on his arrival at Adelaide, for completing the line of telegraph. J Another gentleman has given LIO,OOO to the University. Rekiwick, second in command of the exploring party, has died. The Glenelg railway will be finished by Christmas. Congratulatory addresses have been received from all quarters. The line is doing a good business. [The foregoing Australian telegrams were only received at the Greymouth telegraph office at 2 o'clock this morning.]