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Otago Witness, Issue 1419, 1 February 1879, Page 27

INTERCOLONIAL.

(Special to Press Association ) Sydney, January 23rd. Mr Barbour, ia addressing bis consti- j tuent3, asserted that the squatting organisation had an income of £200,000 annually, applicable to political purposes. ■ Thros horpe stcalers havo been arrested at Oambolong, and havo been identified as the men who were mistaken for Ihe Kelly gang when crossing the Murrumbi'gee. January 24th. Arrived: The mail steamer at Albany. Passeugers for New Zealand— Messrs Reddiford (2), Mrs Reddiford. The Wakatipu has arrived. Hennessy's brandy, 33s 6d to 33s 9d ; Adelaide wheat, 53 to 5s 3d ; New Zealand oats, 33 to 33 6d ; others unchanged. The Chinese Immigration Restriction Bill has been debated in the Assembly. The third biennial meeting of the Australian Agency Banking Corporation was satisfactory. The reserve fund is now £20,000. The ladies of Oamperdown presented Mrs Gibson with a buggy and harness, in recognition of her unwearied kindness to the survivors of the Loch Ard. A fierce affray occurred on board the ship Frith of Tay. The cook shot at the sailmaker, but missed. They then closed, and he knifed the sailmaker, whose face and neck were horribly hacked. Forty-six Coalcliff miners have joined the Union, influenced by the Bulli strike. An influential Home Commission has been appointed for the Exhibition, including Earl Belmore. Sir Daniel Cooper, Mr Forster (Agent-General), Mr Lowe (M.P.), and Sir Cunliffe Owen. January 25th. Isassc Wright and 13 other confederates of the Kelly gang were remanded for a week at Beechworth. Police Court, the witnesses being absent after the Kellys. January 28th. The Bulli lock-out has been settled amicably. Union ib permitted with reservations in employers' interests. At the anniversary regatta yesterday, the Magic (3 hrs 33 mm) beat the Waitangi, a New Zealand yacht, round the harbour, by 12 minutes. January 29th. Rush has challenged Laycock to scull for £200 Nineteen magistrates refused to tranofer a license to a new public-house near MacGibbon's chapel. A minority of two signed the certificate, and hurried to the Treasury for endorsement. The majority raced them. Tue Treasurer deliberates. Sir Hercules Robinson haa received by the mail hi 3 commission as Governor of New Zealand. He will probably leave at the end of February. The Sapphire leaves on Saturday for Auckland, to arrive there about the lObh prox., and will sbay a week, thence proceeding to Plymouth to be paid off. Brisbane, January 23rd. The wreck of the Mecca is hard and fast on the reef, and is likely to remain there. Everything saleable in the vessel can be taken out in pieces, and possibly she may be launched again. The Melbourne New Guinea expedition, by the Dove, found no gold, and suffered fearfully from fever. Several died, and all were so prostrated that they had to lay the vessel to. They afterwards made for Auibora, and were attacked near Threefold Bay, but beat off the natives. Afterwards the vessel sprang a leak, and they were rescued by iho ship Launcelot and landed at Yokohama. A terrific fire at Kong Kong destroyed 368 houses. Its cause is believed to be incendiarism. Melbourne, January 29 th. The Cabinet has resolved to support the action of New South Walea and Queensland in ihe regulation of Chinese immigration. A Board haa been appointed to inquire into Weiberg's escape. There is considerable excitement respecting the Collins' abortion case. Surgeon Croake acted suspiciously. A man was admitted intj the Hospital almost pulseless, after a veal dinner at a Bourke street restaurant. Queensland, January 29th. The schooner Ariel, from San Francisco, arrived at Ctolstown. She reports having made a vain search for the Guinea Islands. Walter, Phoebe, Bowen, and Mu'lor arrived at Cooktown. There have been heavy gales in the China Seas. The Venice and Madagascar are reported lost, the latter 50 days out from Saigon. There are fears of the Ocsan not reaching Hongkong after the damage sus tamed through her going ashore at Thursday Island. (Reuter's Special to Press Association.) ' Sydney, January 23rd. The Bulli lock-out dispute will probably be settled next week. January 27th. At tha anniversary regatta, in the outrigger race for the Champion Belt, Laycock beat Tricketb by eight lengths. , January 29 th. The Bulli lockout men return to the Union. Future difficulties are to be settled by arbitration. Montgomery, for the jewel robberies at Government House, was sentenced to five years for each offence, the sentences to be concurrentSailed : Wakatipu. Brisbane, January 23rd. The total fai'uro of the Melbourne New Guinea expedition in reported. The party were prostrated by fever. Four disd. News from Hong Kong report 3 a disastrous tire, destroying 10^ ao.iea of the city, including the Civil Police Birraoks. The loss is estimated at £200,000 Melbourne, January 23rd. Tenders are invited, for the construction of the Melbourne Exhibition building*. January 27th. M'Laren, from New Zealand, wlio appeared as an agitator for the unemployed, was denounced at a meeting of 300 persons for having been employed at Sydney during the strike collectirg hands for the A.SN. Company to replace the seamen on strike. The meeting expelled him ignominiously. In the case of a woman who died while pregnant;, suspicions are entertained of attempted abortion, by a well-known *

surgeon. The body has been exhumed, and an inquest is pending. A slight accident happened on the Gippsland railway on Saturday, by which a passenger was badly bruised. Tenders for the Melbourne Exhibition building have been opened. Seventeen were received, aud that of David Mitchell wag accepted. Adelaide wheat, 47s to 48s ; flour, 31s. January 2!Hh. Arrived : Ringaroonia. Tho Australian export of wool siuce lsb January amounts to 98,000 bales. The Arawata takes the English mails iv the morning. Queensland, January 27fch. Jamea Foote opposes Ihs re-election of Thompson as Minister of Justice. A woman named Elizabeth EUia ha 1 ! been charged with the manslaughter of a feaiale child which she took from the Orphanage. The post-mortem examination showed rupture of the liver and external bruises.