AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 829, 10 December 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[per arawata, at the blotf.] Melbourne, December 5. Mr. Berry leaves on the embassy at the end of the month. The Commissioner of Public Works, speaking the other night, said Black Wednesday was the most glorious day the sun ever shone on in the colony. The Contagious Diseases Act has been passed by Parliament, and assented to by the Governor. It has transpired that the vacant judgeship has been offered to Mr. fligginbotham and declined. The fines of LSOO imposed on Henry and LSO on Ireland in the embracery cases have been paid. Both prisoners are confined in the Melbourne Gaol. The celebrated stallion Panic died on Saturday. There is nothing further about the bushrangers, of whom all traces appear to be lost. The police found the horses of the murdered men and s>.ane charred reins and saddles, but nothing has been seen or heard of Kelly's gang. I Lord Harris' team of gentlemen cricketers have arrived at Adelaide, and play there on Thursday week, the same day as the Australian Eleven play at Melbourne. The new steel paddle-wheel steamer, carrying a thousand passengers, is to be built for the Bay trade. Rust is prevalent in many parts of the country. There is every prospect of a hot summer. The seamen's strike in Sydney is causing some inconvenience, as few of the boats of the A.S.N. Company are now running. _^______