AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5994, 2 February 1881, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PER S.S. AUSTRALIA.] NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, January 27. Schaefer, the well-known German traveller, has been sent to Callan Park, in consequence of temporary aberration of the mind. VICTORIA. Melbourne, January 27. Hart, wbo was erroneously reported to be the brother of the late outlaw, pleaded guilty to robbery at Sandhurst on Monday, and was remanded for sentence. Tenders have been accepted for two bridges over the Yarra—one at Swan-street, Richmond, and the other at Victoria-street —at an aggregate cost of £11,000. At the annual meeting of the Melbourne Hospital, the balance-sheet showed that that institution was nearly £5000 in arrears. Mr. Milner Stephen's alleged cures are likely to be put to the test by Dr. Gray, who has taken Stephen's challenge. It has been decided to keep the Exhibition open till the 30th of April. Most of the colonies and foreign commissioners, except Germany, have given their adhesion to this. During the last month permission has been given to remove goods each afternoon. The Wesleyan Conference appointed the Revs. Dodgson and Watsford, with King Brooke, as delegates to the Ecumenical Council to be held in London. Advices by mail state that in consequence of the increasing trade between Germany and Australia, arising out of the Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions, a line of sailing vessels has been laid on from Hamburg ; also a line of steamers from Hamburg via the Cape to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. The first to be the Catania, of 3000 tons, sailing the sth of March, QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, January 27. The Duke of Manchester arrived by the Blackall on Friday. An address was presented, congratulating him on his extended trip westward. His Grace read a reply, in which he said the district was the finest in Australia, probably the finest in the world. He thinks the colonists deserved to have their efforts seconded by the Government in making a railway, which he hoped would soon be accomplished. A telegram from sub-inspector Lamond, at Normanton, states that the body of subjnspector Dyas was found, pierced with spear wounds, after it had been buried by the blacks. The deceased had evidently fired his gun on being attacked, on which the blacks ran away, and returned at daylight, when they buried the body. The police were ordered to follow the tracks.