AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue XV, 18 November 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Ringarooma at Russell.) A man named Jos. P. Cole was fined upwards of j£9 at Sta well, on Monday, for hawking tobacco without a license* and having unlawful possession of wbat is believed to be tobacco from the wreck of the ship Eric the Red. It is believed that some tons of tobacco are still concealed. The Cbief Secretary intends to obtain additional evidence on the Biibject of phylloxera from some foreign experts at present in the colony. At the Temperance Conference, Miss Hart read a paper condemning the use of fermented wine in the sacrament of the Lord's supper. About 18,000 persons attended lhe Exhibition on the 9th November. A man named Steele, from Stawell, it miner, was arrested on the night of tbo 9th for beiog found in tbe Goverment House. He admitted that he had wandered there in mistake while intoxicated, and was discharged. It was clear he had no felonious intentions. The attempt to wreck the excursion train, near Suubury, on the evening of tha Oth, by placing Bleepers and an iron guard across the rails, waß discovered iv time to prevent a catastrophe. No trace of the perpetrator haa heen gained up to tbe present. The Age having contained a denunciatory letter respecting tbe course taken by Gaunson in asking a reprieve for the condemned K.lly, and calling on Berry, and the Opposition to combine to take action, an immense meeting of Kelly sympathisers was held at the Robert Burns Hotel, Lonsdale-street. Mr Gaunson here denounced the Press, and the reporters present, who were obliged to fly, and a resolution was adopted condemnatory of the proceedings of the Government in refusing to commute Kelly's sentence. Au open air meeting, arranged to be held on the Court House Reserves adjoining the gaol, on the evening of the 9tb, ou behalf of Kelly, was prevented by lhe police. Shortlyafter 8 p.m. a large crowd collected in Lons-dale-street, near the hotel, where Kate Kelly and other relatives of the murderer, were stayiug. A lorry, drawn by iwo horses, was procured, in which Wild Wright, Kate Kelly, Kelly's brother, and a number of otber sympathisers took their seats, and thiß vehicle, preceded by young men carrying torches, and followed by a crowd of tbe lowest class, was drawn through the principal thoroughfares to the rendezvous, where it was met by Willie Gaunson, who intended to address the meetiog. Here the police superintendent intimated that the meeting could not bo held. The crowd then marched to the vacant square fronting Madeline- street and Caroline-street, wt.ere the meeting was addressed by Gaunson, who again denounced the Press amongst other things. The mob afterwards marched to the Treasury, where a deputation saw Mr Graham Berry and reiterated the previous arguments in favor of mercy. Mr Berry promised to submit their representations to his colleagues, but held out uo hopes of mercy. Gaunson communicated the result to tbe people, who received it with cheers. About five policemen were stationed at the Treasury. In the Assembly oh Wednesday the Minister of Mines said that diamond drills had been found so useful in the discovery of new leads and lodes that the Government proposed to import two or three more. The Presbyterian Assembly has adopted a memorial against the opening of the museum and public library on Sundays. A gentleman was garrotted on Monday night at the corner of Queen and Lonsdalestreets, by four ruffians. One tried to strangle him, and the other rifled his pocket of a gold watch and 16 sovereigns. No clue as yet to indentify them. Mrs. Jones, the landlady of the Glenrowan Hotel, where tbe Kellys fought the police, and who has been arrested on a charge of harboring and maintaining Ned Kelly, is alleged to have acted with hira in preventing the escape of those inside the hotel. She denies this latter charge, and states that as her children were wounded and her house burned she has suffered enough for her conduct is giving the outlaws shelter. It is stated that the Government propose to forego further reductions in the Civil Service in order to escape the difficulty raised by Sir B. O'Loughlin's successful motion. This involves the sacrifice of £ 10,000 proposed savings. At Yam Creek, Western Australia, a crushing of 18 tons of quartz yielded 180 ounces of gold. The owners of the claim are Chinese. Mr Inceall has drawn attention to the growth of gambling in Victoria, and said he was informed that £200,000 Bterling changed hands on tbe Cup day, and one man held £34,000 in £1 sweepstakes. The Government are not expected to take any action. The Age says the investigation held hy the race committee into Mata's runnig for the Cup came to nothing ; but suspicions are abroad that he did not do the best possible for the Cup, aud was suffering from the metallic influence of the betting ring. The decision of the stewards, made known yeste. day morning, is as follows :— " The stewards having considered the horse Mata's running in the Royal Park Stakes on the 4th November, 1880, have decided that the jockey Ray shall be disqualified for riding or training any horse, and that Mata Bhall he disqualified from running on the Flemington racecourse." The members of the ring are underetood to

bo heavy losers on the races. Nevertheless they very promptly Bottled all claims.