AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6424, 20 June 1882, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PER K.K.S. ZEALAND!*.] NEW SCUTH WALES. ' : ■■ ; '"1 Stdkey, June 14;.--..-The Belgian Const! in Sydney has received intimation from ihe Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium,dated May 1, that the P. andO. Co.'asteamsr Sutlej, 4100 tons, was to leave Antwerp on May 4, for King George's Sound, .Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, via Suez Canal. The steamers of this service: will itart from Antwerp, and •will call at Londotij Malta, Brindisi,: and Colombo. From ihe latter port they.will, branch out, departures taking place alternately for Australia; and for China and Japan. ■■■■. •;■.-. ; A man named Janes Ryan was convicted f of using obscene language at a theatre while 'open to the public,'and was fined 60s. So loud was Ryan's language and so violent his conduct that it becirne necessary to drop the curtain, and stop the-proceedings until he was removed from the house. His Excellency 'Ifae Governor has received a letter, from EarJ Kimberley, in reference to the album .and,picture presented to Her Majesty . the., Queen, by the Government, on behalf of the people of this colony, stating that Her Majesty ias been pleased to accept the gift. .'.• . ;■■'." . • I ' Two companies, one consisting of twenty- ! four, and the other of twelve, shareholders, have been-formeA in Sydney, and have secured, the first 2,000,000, and the second 1,000,000 acres, of land,' on the Fitzroy River; in Western, Australia, and adjacent to 200,000 acres taken up and being stocked by the Duke of Manchester. i On Thursday afternoon, June 8, a man of respectable appearance, bearing the. name of Henry, .Carbonell, was found deaid upon the steps leading to the rooms, occupied iay the Young Men's Christian Association. ■ ' ■ . VICTORIA.' V . . . ; . Melbourne, June 14.' The Governor, ' accompanied' :by ' Lord Hervey Phipps and. Captain v Le .Patourel, visited the Japanese corvette Tsu.kuba, when a salute, of seventeen guns was fired. Among the documents found on Bryant was an agreement purporting to be signed by the editor of the Age, oh behalf of the: proprietors, agreeing to give Bryant £25' cash,'and £25- in weekly instalments of £5,: and £50 to' be paid two days afters thej declaration of war between Russia and England. These payments to be made ia consideration'of the article on Russian designs. ■'■ ■ A private letter from England statesthatBonnor won £100 from an English gentleman, a fellow passenger on the voyage home,'; who betthe giant that he could not throw a cricket ball a distance of 115 yards on the first day after landing. Bonnor threw. the ball 119 yards. A nugget lib. in weight has been found near Wychetella, new country. ~ ~ ; ! Complaints are made of the weakness and. ineffieiency of the police force, and the necessity of additional officers and men ie urged. '■ Almost the whole of the manuscript of Dr. Hearn's Consolidation of Laws Bill is believed to have been destroyed, by the fire ,at the Government Printing Office. I Mr. Aherne, barrister, of Stawell, has died from an overdose of chloral,.inadvertently administered by his wife, who gave him ■ sufficient for four doses. ' ' »

During the eleven weeks preceding the'lst' of June, the Colac Meat Preserving Company purchased 290,000 rabbits, and another dealer bought 50,000 skins. The district is now almost clear of' the pest. , ■'■' ' ' A summary' of the import and export returns has been published. The imports for 18Slare valued at £16,718,531, showing an increase of over £2,000,000. Value of exports, £16,250,200. The ■ gross Customs revenue was -£1,903,698, an increase of over.; £350,000.

•'■■■ Malsters complain that their intercolonial trade will , be destroyed unless malting in bond is allowed. The Tariff Commission recommend Government to allow foreign barley to be malted in bond, arid : that drawback be allowed on malt made from foreign barley.- ' . . ;

The Lusitania has sailed with 4500 packed carcases of mutton and some beef.

A-jeweller's shop in Londsdale-street has been broken into and property to the value of £2000 stolen. - - :

The Rev. Dr. Barry, Canon of Worcester, is likely to be the new Bishop.'

;. QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, June 14. , At Maryborough, on the 13th, a man entered the shop of Mr. Nightingale, and asked for a revolver. On being supplied with it he loaded the weapon, and stated his intention, ot . sticking-up the Joint Stock Bank. ,Mr. Nightingale attempted to leave the shop, but the man bailed him up, and he eventually bolted without paying. This morning the same man entered the Joint Stock Bank, and fired a shot at the accountant, Mr. Male, who immediately drew a revolver and fired three times. The man was seized by the bystanders. , Nobody was hurt. On being arrested the man informed the police his name was Maurice O'Brien', an American. He is supposed to be insane. The brig' Syren, bound for Sydney, with timber, which left Kaipara on May 20, experienced a heavy gale on June 1. The ressel shipped several heavy . geas, which ■washed overboard two seamen named Joshua Walker and George Sidoy, carrying away a deck load of timber, with everything on deck, and smashing the long boat Another sea stove in the stern, and carried away the mate, W. E. Brown. It being impossible to make Sydney in this disabled condition, the Syren stood for Moreton Bay, in company with the Spirit of the Dawn, and which port she reached safely. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. : . Adelaide, June 14. ' The officer who had charge of the drainage works in the south-east has been arrested on a charge of ombezzling Government money. The irregularities are supposed to have been going on for a considerable time.

At the last meeting of the Kapunda Corporation, Councillor Morton ■ used offensive language, and refused ; to_ withdraw ■ the words. At to-night's meeting he again declined to withdraw them, and a motion to fine him £10 was carried. Morton immediately threw down a £50 note, requesting the fine to be taken out of it.

The Government expect to introduce lower passenger'rates, abolishing third-class fares, about the beginning of August. The delay is mainly owing to the time required for necessary alterations to the present thirdclass carriages.

The Orient Steam Navigation Company write to the local agents that they have decided that in future their steamers shall pass Adelaide, as trade there has paid poorly, and the company has met with much discouragement from the Government on the mail question, quarantine charges on the Garonne, Sunday discharging, and excessive pilotage charges.

The skip at the Moonta mines was overwound, and, the rope broke.- The coneequence was that the loaded skip went down tho shaft, and John Dorman, the tiller, was caught by one leg, which was taken clean off Taelow the knee, and carried down the shaft. -