AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Eeuter's Special to Star.]
Melbourne, Friday.
Supplies of sugar are small, and sales are progressing firmly, at £1 per ton higher.
Soudry, who was shot by Greer, hi the Opera House, is now better, and has left the hospital.
Ned Kelly will be put on his trial at Beechworth, and will be defended by Mr. David Gaumon.
The portfolio of Postmaster-General in Mr. Berry's Ministry is still unfilled. ■It is expected that Sir John O'Shanassy will assume an independent attitude in the Assembly during the present session-
In the re- election of Ministers, several are being opposed.
King George's Sound, Friday.
The P. and O. Company's steamship Malwa, with the inward Suez mail, dated London, July 2, arrived on the 3rd inst. Cooktown, August 4.
The Eastern Australian Mail Company's steamship Normanby has arrived from Singapore with the Torres Straits mail. She brings the following items of Eastern news : — The Chinese preparations for war with Russia continue unabated. Prince Kung and the Viceroy of Kanau still maintain their ascendancy, and there is reason to believe that their warlike feeling is undiminished at Pekin. Six thousand French troops will occupy Tonquin, in Cochin China, in September. Piracy is rife at the present time in Chinese waters.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 34, 7 August 1880, Page 2
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