AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEK HEKO AT WELLINGTON.) Melbourne, August 28.

Mr. Lausell. a rich reefer of Sandhurst, has given LIOOO to the Bendigo IJospital, and LIOOO to the Hospital for Incurables. The Rev. Father Krangwitter, one of the earliest Catholic missionaries to "Victoria and South Australia, has died. The Victorian Exhibition Commission has granted an extra space to Austria and Germany. New annexes are being erected, at a cosc of L2OOO. It is said that Sir John O'Shannassy will take an early opportunity of moving; for a Royal Commission on Education ha Victoria. There is some ground for believing that the sovereigns found at Sandridge belong to a seaman of the Arabia, who is known to have planted about 200 in the yeat 1852. He had a great distrust of banks. Measles are raging in some of the; suburbs. The Governor will open the International Exhibition at 11 a.m. on Ist. October, and Commodore Wilson has promised that all British inen-of-war on the' station shall rendezvous in Hobson Bay, The Governor visited the Exhibition, and was received by the President and Commissioners. He inspected the whole of the building and arrangements, witht which be expressed much satisfaction.. Everything is now getting- into a forward! state. ' Brisbane, August 28. Many persons are leaving Brisbane for the new tin mines near A large number of selections have been taken during the last few days, and water is abundant. Large quantities of tin continue to arrive at Cooktown—26 tons were shipped by the Llewellyn, and 40 tons by the Alexandra. A proclamation has been issued offering a bonus of LSOOO for the production of 500 tons of marketable iron from Queensland ores.

A IYSLAIDE, Au?USt 28. In the Assembly the Treasurer said I that a million and a half of loan money was on deposit in London at 2£ per cent.;: also, the Treasurer said, in reply to a. question, that the brokerage paid on last, loan was £*per cent. The Rev. Mr. Bach has committed! suicide -with prussic acid.

It is the intention of the Chief Secret tary to address a despatch to the Government of Canada, asking if any ments can be made to admit our vinos; into that country at lower rates of dmfcy than those at present in force, whicb ara almost prohibitory.