AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 946, 29 April 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

* (PER CITY OF > t EW YORK AT AUCKLAND.; Auckland, April 29. The City of New York brings 50 cabin and 28 steerage passengers for San Francisco. SUMMARY. Sydney, April 24. In connection with the rejection of the Anti-Chinese BillbytheLegislativeCouncil is the significant fact that next day a number of Chinese claimed, to. have their names put upofl tha West Sydney Electoral Roll. The claim was admitted in the case of fourteen, who produced letters of naturalisation. These are of a respectable class, and competent to exercise the franchise intelligently. • The Cormorant, war steamer, has arrived from Noumea, and reports that it punished the natives at Brooker Island for the murder of Ingham, l»,t& a Queensland representative, It shelled the natives and. destroyed their villages. The captain comments severely on the fact that traders . sell dynamite to the natives, and anticipates that they will treacherously blow up some vessel visiting there. A long correspondence is published, in which the Governments of Australia and New Zealand jointly object to the liberated prisoners from New Caledonia being permitted to come to the Colonies. The French Government express a desire to meet their views, but New Caledonian officials practically tUsyegavd tho objection. The Ceremonial Committee of the Melbourne Exhibition will invite competition for opening poems throughout the Australian Colonies. It is not stated if New, Zealand will be included.