AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 422, 13 March 1880, Page 17

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER ALBION AT HOKITIKA.) VICTORIA.

Murray Smith, Kerferd, and Macmahon are the names mentioned for the Speakership.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The events for the A.J.C. autumn meeting filled well, there being 103 nominations in excess of last year.

Exhibitors at the Exhibition will retain their goods at the Garden Palace till April 20. Stewart Anslow, Lollner, Gordon, Thompson, and Simpson, have been elected to row in the Intercolonial boat race. QUEENSLAND. The Executive have resolved to rescind the regulations for paying Volunteers 7s. per day during encampment. The banks have reduced rates of interest on fixed deposits by 1 per cent. The barque Gazelle, arriving at Brisbane from Solomon Island, brought the crews of the barque Meteor and schoener Treleaven Eamily, ■wrecked off the Solomon Group. In reference to the loss of the Meteor, the captain reports that he arrived at Suva on January 16. While taking in cargo a gale sprang up, with heavy sea 3, the cables parted, and on the 20th the vessel drove ashore on a ledge of rocks, and broke up almost immediately. Captain Callaghan swam ashore with a line by which a hawser was got ashore, and then with an assistant he rescued the whole of the crew. The natives were very kind, and brought the crew yams, evening and morning, upon which they lived fifteen days. An aboriginal named Johnny Campbell, who has committed a number of outrages in the vicinity of Maryborough, Wine River, shot a tracker who was searching for him near the Nemrumi Creek. The shot lodged in the tracker's left arm. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Governor Robinson is expected to arrive early in April. The schooner Citadel from Semaphore, on the 18th February, for East London, wheat laden, sprung a leak seven days after leaving, while running before a heavy sea. She made much water, and arrived at Ereemantle for repairs. TASMANIA. The Hon. Charles Meredith, Police Magistrate at Launceston, and for many years a prominent politician, is dead. The Council has reduced the amount of the proposed loan to £250,000.