AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 321, 3 May 1877, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The senate of the Melbourne University have negatived the proposition if Professor Andrew for the removal of the University to a central site in the city. An alarm of small-pox was caused through an eruption breaking out on a sailor who had been a passenger by the R.M.S. Bangalore. The case proved to be a mild attack of chicken-pox. Among the wills proved in tiie Supreme Court was that or the late Mv. John Mmifokl, whose property was sworn at I/Xv";;):}. "

'■ ..viessor Hearne has agreed to stand as a candidate in the Ministerial interest

for Fitzroy, and has received very numerous promises of support. It is reported that Mr. Justice Stephen will shortly retire from the bench, and that the present Attorney-General, Mr. Kerferd, will succeed him as one of the Supreme Court judges. At a supper at Ec:uica, Mr. Casey, the late Minister of Lmds, and for many years a member of various Ministries, proposed a system of intercolonial reciprocity under which articles of growth and manufacture of produce of each colony wouLl be reciprocally received amongst them all. Ttie Australian Blondin repeated his performance of crossing Middle Harbour oa a rope on the 21st instant, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Lady Robinson and party were present. Tiie Adelaide Government are calling upon the officers in the Railway Department of over twenty years' service to resign, according to t.ie regulations.

A letter has been received from Mr. Power, of Victoria, accepting the football challenge for a match between South Australia and Victoria.

A shocking murder occurred at Wallaroo, S.A., on the morning of the 19th ult. An assistant bailitf named Woodhead was stabbed'by a man named Streatjuan, whose premises Wuodhead was in charge of. Woodhead escaped to the residence of Dr. Phillips, where his depositions were taken, and lie expired shortly after>varJs. fc>treatman has been arrested.

Tae Ait-England Eleven left by the Bangalore. iue team, before their departure, presented Mi: John Conway and Br. Peel with gold lockets for their kindness to the Eleven.

Selby won the race against Goodfellow, of Adelaide, by a yard. Mr. James M'Kean, the solicitor who was expelled from the Legislative Assembly last year, announced iU3 intention to contest ths representation of Warrnambool against Sir James M'Cuiloch, but he has sinca withdrawn.

Proposals have been made for an amalgamation of the tiirje Meib.mrne gas companies. The Collingwood Company, however, valued their shares more liig.ily than the Melbourne Company did, and the negotiation fell throag.i. The libel action of Mr. B. G. Davies, M.L.A., against the ex-Premier, Mi - . Graham Berry, in which L' 5,000 damages is claimed, cannot be before the 2i)ch May. The Ararat and Himilton railway is now completed as far a3 Duukeld. The hrst meeting of tie Australian Coursing Club has been held on Messrs. T. arid A. C arnside's estate. Hares were very ple'.ituki, and the sport was firstrate. . f

A curious "deposit of old coins, including English, Spanish, and Indian, dating from liol and 1820, has been found buried at Newcastle.

The official opening of the Great Western Railway from Blayney to Orange, a distance of 20 miles, fo>k place on tie 19th inst. The majority of tde Ministry and a number of members of the Legislature were present.