AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6484, 29 August 1882, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

„ £ezs u skvtrxti, zax bot.Jvictoria. * * s UxunOEOi Aognrt23THE pwfflagtt i.l3irißi£rTt tihitjtgM: Ql"»* of 'ill© mail steamer Clyde was attended with some ris&. r Two cannons ttetb placed aboardt«nd tha axwlvrexe armed with rifles aad pikes." She want through - the caaalipreceded by * Spamshwari-resseL - - : • The- continues very fiirosoHs.' Theramfail-forthe yearis still foorioches below the avenge of the last twenty iyeaa. '• • Thecropsinmoit partsof the coontry are looking irelL- ; - ' Archaic of-moderalanjnage and literx-* tare, with.; a - salary J of: £700, 'i» -to- be . establiiihnrt'at the Faitenily.''-; | The" Cirimborazo, which sailed yesterday, tool: 1900-carcasea ofmntfcon from-Mel-boome, and? 2700 from Sydney. -'All the meat had teen prepared with great care, and -wiO/it is snticipated, be a'socceas. ■ - : Nearly the whole of thepermanent gsrrison fore® has b;en recruited.' : ; The conference of the' committee of'both. Homes on the'amendmfints on the Bill to amend the" HeformAct, -l met last*. eTening, bat after a long discission failed to come to any decision; and it remains now to beseen "what the Assembly will do with the BilL ■ On Wednesday the samof;£lso,oQQ was voted omaccomit of the/water to meet the expenditure daring thecorrent year. - ; The select committee. recommendthe use of granite or freestone in bmldingthefrent of the Parliament Houses..,, - s: J. a "J: The .estimates for the, central stations worts show the cost to"be about a million. The Government propose to adopt the schema j as far as passible. ~ j . Considerable discission hasarisen crrer the Baldwin' case, .via:;which: the* Premier is j accused: of-diimiesing the/head of the Snnbnry Industrial School and faronring political parties and a countryman. ' 1 The statement was made in the -Assembly, bat Trai shown by theiifinistry= to havenofoandition. ■ .■"// ; An erperiment withaerial rabies inthe etrceta,. to inclade ten telegraph . wire 3,' is being tried with success. : . } ■ • Animprorementof 40 per cent is reported in the Ballaratand Sandhurst gold returns. Themm Bnms was recently broughtto trial for the Deep I>ead'nninler,on3oftbe most intricate case.* heard here: - The 'evidence was entirely circomstaatjaL': On being" l acqnittedj Bnrns'was arreated on -another charge of morder,?committed at;Wyclifie two years ago.: Itia rumoured that there ia a third case in South Australia.: >'■ - ; ! '■ Mr. White,-- the 'representative ply the South Australian . farmers, is at present in I this colony examining the agnjnltaral lands. IHe has informed the,Himster. of Xaipds that " upwards of ; 1000. farmers were 'prepared -to. leave Sonth Australia, and bring, with' them capital varying from £200 to £4000 each. ■ • Th« defensive works are rapidly.approaching completion. : All the gnns at QneenscKff* are.monnted. Those; 1 ft; Swan are nearly so. ": j-' . :

; Councillor. Mears, the - late Mayor, was I warmly congratulated by tha CSty Conncil loi the attainment of hiarecent dignity, i ' ' For some time past the ad valorem duty of 20 per cent.'on watches has been evaded bb the various portions being imported in detail, in separate' vessels. ' By this means fivesixths of the duty are saved. - J NEW SOUTH WAIBS. f Sroirrr," Angnst 23.. A contract has been accepted for the Goldsbro* wool stores at Pyimont, at a cost of £70,009. , The coastal revenue last year shows an increase of over £36,'000. ~ . , ' Mr. I>ncas, whose exorbitant claim in connection with the Darling. Harbour land, obtained for himsome notoriety, has sailed for England: ' •v - : : ' - - On Tuesday morning the irOD screw collier WoononaJ was Tan into by the Sayonia, in' the harbour. The Woonona was much injured. . . Satisfaction is felt at Mr. Alexander Stuart's'accepting the leadership, ot the Opposition. • .. • i TASMANIA. " I Hobakt, August 23. " Mr. James Whyte, formerly Premier, and tiie last snrviving member of the first legislative Council of Tasmania, is dead.'