AUSTRALIA NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 485, 19 November 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIA NEWS.

♦ [PEH STEAMEK.J Mi'.LiioniNH, November 13. The Council is unlikely to get much from the Governor on the presentation of the address re payment of members. Tlio reply is already known although tho address will not be presented until to-day, and the effect of it is that the Coventor will be guided by the advice of his Ministers. Considerable progress has been made with the tariff in Committee of Ways and Means, but tlio Bill is to bo considered by t!ie Assembly on Thursday. It is quite different in many respects from that previously submitted. It is the intention of the Government to appoint a Koyal Commission to consider the ta.iff during tho recess. T.'ie Spring Race Meeting was concluded on Saturday. It was a grand day, and the ladies came out iu force, while tho costumes were elegant and varied. Tho settling yesterday was scarcely in favor of the bookmakers. Joe Thompson paid away L21,0H0 in four bets alone, including LIO,OOO to the owner of Chester.

Yet si> far there have been no defaulters, engagements having been promptly mot. During gauntry practice by tlio Nelson in Htilison'a Bay on Friday, a shell bounded from the water on to the shoro at St. Kihla, and went through a workshop, luckily unoccupied at tho time, owing to i(s being a holiday, then proceiding nearly a quarter of a mile, and innde a large hole in the briek wall of a lions.*. It «as extremely fortunate that no one was hilled or i<ij:tvd. On Sunday morn ng a gatekeeper, named Harris, and his wife, were killed by a passing train on the North-Eastjrn liii'. 1 before they eonld open the gates. In an action brought by Mr. T. L. Lnvis against the proprietor of Pundi, a verdict was given for the defendant. Levy, tho cornet player, is a passenger by t e lie yesterday filed ins schedule, in order to obtain release from actions brought against him by professionals.