AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 7 October 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

V. J NEW SOUTH WALES. A conference of electors' delegates, sitting in Sydney, have unanimously passed a resolution in favor of a cessation of interest on the unpaid balances on conditional purchases.. The rush at Bermagin near Bega, continues. There ava nearly 400 there. LIOO wj\3 paid for an eighth share in f(, filaim near the prospectors'. The country inland looks favorable, and provisions are cheap and plentiful. It has been agreed, conditionally on the other Colonies concurring, to hold a Conference in Melbourne, to consider Chinese immigration, with a, view to taking action for their repression. In compliance. with a. requisition from a preliminary meeting, the Mayor of Sydney has called a public meeting to consider the case of the Evening News, whioh was fined L 250 for contempt of Court. There is a good deal of talk about paying the fine by general subscription. During a terrible gale, the Susannah Godeffroy, 1137 tons register, with a ca?go of 1070 tons coal for Yokohama, drove ashore while endeavoring to return to the harbp.r, She is totally wrecked. The captain, mate, and five others of a crew of 21 were drowned. The vessel was leaking badly when she put to sea, and, on starting from Newcastle, the absence of a lifeboat excited strong comment. VICTOR. Seventy-one officers of the Lands Dehave received notice of dismissal, They receive one month's full pay and superannuation allowance. The Minister for Railways stated to a deputation that the railway revenue annually falls L 150,000 short of interest on the capital invested. The Assembly has assented to the Council's request for a conference relative to the Payment of Members It was arranged to send the Bill in two portions, one relating to the payment of members of the Assembly and the other the payment of members of the Council. In the Council the former was immediately passed, The latter will pi'abably be rejected. The Exhibition was opened on the Ist inst., with great eclat. The telegraphed report in the Sydney Morning Herald says the interior arrangements of the Ceremonial Committee proved almost faultless. The ceremony co/iiEneneed with a grand procession yo. the building. When it arriyec], ciieers were given for the Queen, the Prinoe of Wales, and the Marquis of Normanby, then Caron's cantata, with a chorus of 900, and an orchestra, was rendered in a highly successful manner, and was followed lay tremendous applause. The. nu, tuber present within JJsliibitiop, and the precincts w?,s 50,000, of «rhom 80QQ paid for admission, It ia estimated that 150,000 persons thronged the streets through which the procession passed, Jfc is stated that only 63 season tickets had been sold up to the 20th September, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ' The Assembly has voted L3OOO for obtaining from England the nucleus of a permanent Artillery force, The Government Resident telegraphs the arrival in the Northern Territory of | (58. Europeans utterly inexperienced in • digging. They are therefore useless, and likely to become a burden on the Government. Later, he telegraphed that a steamer had arrived, with 500 Chinese, and that threo mofe were laid on at Hong Kong. He says no more Europeans ought to come whilst there is such an influx of Chinese, as competition is hopeless. The Europeans just arrived seam afraid to go up the country and ask for return passages. QUEENSLAND. Mr. Luckin, editor, of the Courier, has served the. proprietors of the Catholic paper, the Australian, with a, writ for L3oos for slander, The latter publishes a CQmplete apology, and acknowledges that the statement had no foundation, The .Municipal Council of Gladstone has offered the lease of a frontage ta the harbor to the New Zealand (?) MeatFreezing Company on favorable terms. The company jutend to aupply our own ports and New Caledonia, 1