AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 118, 25 April 1883, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(Per 8.8. Tarawera at the Bluff.) (united peess association.) | Melbourne. Mr Patrics; Hunt, M.L.A., has issued a writ against the Age for £2000 damages, on account ot an article stating that the Great Extended Langnde Mining Company, of which he is Chairman, has dismissed a number of men who refused to subscribe to the Irish League Fund. It is probable that an extensive trade will be opened up between Australia and England m cheap colonial wines. Mr Davis, wLo has arrived from London on behalf of a company, has selected a quantity of fair and middling qualities to supply the place of clarets and hocks. He has. also a commission to purchase a quantity of expensive wines for connoisseurs. Provision is to be made m the Postal Amending Act next session for assimilating postage stamps. Several members of the Ministry were present at the banquet at the Pbceuix Foundry, Ballarat, on the 15th instant, m celebration of the completion of the hundredth locomotive for tbe Government. Mutual congratulations were indulged m, and the visit we s very successful. Sir Patrick Jennings, who is oh a visit to Melbourne, has suggested that the colonies should jointly charter a steamer to convey goods and passengers to the Calcutta Exhibition. The Creswick Relief Fund Committee has waited on the Minister of Mines, to request him to place £1060 on the Estimates, to add to the fund, so as to form a National Urgent Mining Accident Fund. He promised to recom* memfethe matter to the attention of his colleagues, and stated he was personally favorable to the proposal.. An application was made on Saturday for a rale nisi to quash the conviction of Captain Shepherd, of the Salvation Army, who was fined £5 and costs for holding a proces&ion without authority. Counsel, m applying, said that three or four persons, or schoolgirls, going for a walk might be held a procession ; but Justice Higinbo ham upheld the deck sion. Sydney. Mr Redmond arrived at Tenterfield on Friday.' Party feeling ran high, and every hall m the town was closed against him. Application was made to • the directors of the Protestant Hall, Newcastle, and also refused ; but Geary, who is said to have made the application, states that tbe signature is a forgery, and he knows: nothing of the matter. A quarrel ensued bet ween him and the ball secretary, resulting m blows and a cross»BUmmons for assault. H.M.S. Miranda has left for Fiji to take part m the funeral obsequies of King Cakombau. H.M.S. Nelson leaves shortly. Archbishop Vaughan made a speech on laying the foundation of a new school at JBalmain, m which he advised the Catholics to wait, and' a' sense of justice was certain to bring about a settlement; " ■• , . Adelaide;. Mr Robert Kennedy, advance agent of the Kennedy Family, arrived m the R.M.S. Rosetta. The family follow shortly, and open m Melbourne. Bishop j£ennion made a long and eloquent speech at a meeting of the Bible m State Schools Society m support of the object of the organisation. At the close of the meeting, Major Fergusson was presented with a farewell address by the members of the .Church of England. '