AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1666, 6 December 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[ANGLO-AUSTRALIA^ 'PRESS C TELEGRAPH , r , .... ■':, agency^]^'^;^'^' '_„, . : AIJSTRALIAN: SUMMARY.^,: Bluff, Dec. 5.-' vi-^v^^. ..,'■. • ■ Melbourne, Nov. 29. ■\ Parliament has prorogued 'from : the 25th to the 31st December next. ■ ; The Lknd Bill was lost. ]i '■'"■'■ A Parliamentary-v. Press cricket match was won by the Press. ; : ' : Another L7OOO of a deficiency- has been discovered in the Landa Office accounts of O'Farrell, an abscondipg clerk.. -"-I F. H. Power, an old cblouistjaa dead. There will be special: prayers, in all Anglican Churches on the 3rd Djecember. The Land Court is still occupied hearing arguments against the forfeiture of squatting ? licenses ;for . complicity : with dummy selectors. ■ "A boy set fire to the ship Penthesilia three times ; on the last occasion it was with' difficulty' extinguished;' . l He was ; comtriitted for trial. \ .!''■' ■ A. rule nisi is granted for : a new trial in : the case of Armitage -v. Smith. j ,:^ :;:.;.:-■ !;.SYDNiiY;,Noy. 28. j -The tariff- is-passedi- -•;•■•- - - ; - -r •- — ' Mamage^VM ! a ;; Deceased 'Wife's Sister • Bill; has: .been read ja; second, time in the Assembly; V.'AL "A/XO 'j'. r .*'Sk'l \'^ _ * i ! The Sanf op, . wi th^he Queensland' mailk, I left Batayia ! ..fpr Bripbaneidirect'on ,MonIdaylr: i-;vfl •> : .-.\- ;;nipM brn; --<:'■:! > The past ten. raonth:s^feyeaue exceeds' ithat.bf the whole of ; the pteyiousyeari sir;-:. The wool sales are postponed to'riext' week. _ ■[';'[_ " ; . ?:r . ; .. /'.' [[' !*,!'" '' ' '"'■ Ay man has been found tied to a tree. ! nearßushman's with his . throat? cut. '■• i ..-.,. .•^ dbl A i P e j N0v.. .28^^ I ' ! The Brokers Bill' has been read a.-firati !time. ,\\O-'-.< :■:'■ :-.•• -;;.: f ". ■■^.i | -The Government isto borrow LlO^ObOr itp .pay the,. English :• Northern . Territory larid-lioldersi :s; . ; -■: - ; ;: :i:- k;?o \ 'Sales of ii'ew' 'w,h'6atj; ss,to 535&. \. _;■ "■'} ";j • ! The" 'offerfcry boxes' 'at St. Paulk Church were robbed. '■ " ! '-*■ ;: ■; ; - r " ;;; ';'y- :■;';: ' ; ; IiAUNCESTON, NOV^ 2B^ , THe .Wesjbury show,. ; was >. a; great" success.- ..■;.., .. v . „,.,... . 4 ~ : THe foundation stone. of , the new Cpmi. mercial Barik'has been laid. ; ; Twelve pigs- of iron, weighing jtwo-tonsj-from the Ilfarcombie Iron Works, have been shipped for. Melbdurnei- ' ; -