NEW SOUTH WALES.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2250, 15 July 1879, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sir J. Robertson will ask the Council to make fcho second clause in the now Land Bill retrospective The Dill ii withdrawn as tho prorogation takes plaoe next week. Persons interested in the Torros Straits pearl fisheries are petitioning tho Queensland Govornmont to romovo the recent restrictions, otherwioe this lucrative industry will collapse. Tho steamer Australian was driven from her moorings at Lavender Bay on July 7, and narrowly escaped striking the rocks off Mitter's Point. A pleasure boat capsized recently at Norfolk Island. When the Gungo sailed fivo foiniiluß were still insensible. Tho hull of the man-of-war Don w«v!T found completely rotten. She will probably be sent homo. There was heavy snow at Kiandra town. The mailman brought the mail on jmow shoos. Fifty laborers from Melbourne obtained work on the Great Northern railway. The Roman Catholic Bishops are about to issue a joint pnstoral, enjoining the flocks not to send their children to sohooli not recognised by the Ohuroh. A female Blondin performing at Newcastle fell thirty foot, and was severely shaken.