AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 662, 31 October 1884, Page 22

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per 3.5. Tarawera, at the Bluff.)

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, October 21.

Sir Henry and Lady Loch paid a visit to Warrnambool. The whole Western district was en ffise. The journey was a great sucC& lt is intended to hold a grand naval and military demonstration of the Victorian forces on the 10th November. The Caulfield Cup meeting was very successful, the attendance being larger than any previous year. Mr Justice Williams has made an order allowing the removal of Mr Delves BroughtoD, master of the Melbourne Mint, from Cremorne Private Asylum, where he is now confined, ter England. Brisbane, October 21.

The libel action rrought by Mr Hodgkinson, warden of the Palmer goldfield?, against Mr Miles, the Minister of Works, claiming £IO,OOO, has been withdrawn, each paying his own costs. ... Four thousand five hundred ana sixtyeight tons of sugar have been exported from Queensland since the commencement of the season. Mr Chester, Police Magistrate at Thursday Island, has been instructed to represent Queensland at the ceremony of proclaiming the British protectorate over New Guinea. The captain and officers of'the labor schooner Hopeful have been committed for trial for kidnapping. The second mate and boatswain, charged with the murder of two natives, are also committed. Adelaide, October 21. News from Barrow’s Creek states that the natives are very troublesome, and are assembling in large bodies near the station. The South Australian Institute of Surveyors has applied to the Government asking that the surveyors’ licenses of other colonies may be accepted in South Australia, conditionally on those colonies reciprocating the arrangement. The steam yacht Casbie Doo has been exploring the Cambridge Gulf, and has found plenty of good country. Sydney, October 21. The steamer Madjus has been wrecked off Port Macquarrie, and has completely broken up. There is no chance of saving anything. Dr Von Lendenfield, of the Lineman Society of New South Wales, has succeeded in discovering the nervous system of sponges, thereby proving their animal nature beyond doubt.