LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 614, 31 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

An influential meeting of Scotchmen will take steps to initiate a fund for the relief of the shareholders impoverished by the City of Glasgow Bank failure. A strong committee was appointed. Sir Jamea McOullough is chairman. At Ballet a girl was severely burned m the Academy of Music through a tarletan dress catching fire from a gas jet underneath the stage. The Queensland" exploring expedition has arrived at Powertlp jcreelt, all well. They report the country very dry, little rain having fallen for jfc wo f years Some places the expedition . haa visited had been without rations, fqjjt a long time. j They supported themselves entirely by I game. Seven horses died from want of water. So far as surveys extend a good line exists for railway purposes. Major Smith m opening the new State School at Sandhurst, intimated that the Government purposes dispensing with the services JQ& i. Auckland teachers, and is considering the best means of establishing State Schools Saving's Banks. Rich gold has been discovered at Pleasant Creek m a cross-reef claim at Stawell, the stone showing splendid gold. , No particulars are to hand about the wreck^of.- the Lochj^liUnHft. It is believed&hat a considerable, portion of the cargo will be saved ))( tljunigh serious damage is reported, but n<| lo3S of life. The \ictorian antif-Chjfaese. Association has been formed^ its,' object being the restriction^ and, jtf necessary complete, prohibition of phin£se immigration to the colony, and the absolute discontinuance of tradeVand traffic with the Chinese already here^ i A railway porter on tlie Hobson Bay line, named Albferfc Anthony,, was accidentally run over by a'train! jat Prohran. He received terrible injuries to his feet and legs, which, were nearly severed, necessitating amputation of both legs. ! He has since died, after lingering m great agony. ••■.'•> • v-> A fire has occurred'^ by which three houses at Collingwood were totally destroyed, and three children m one family, ' named Blackburn ? burned to death, before they could be rescued. A woman named Summers,, mother of eleven children, was accidentally run over "by a train on the Stallwell and ' Hoshani line. She was killed, her head ! and right arm being severed from the

body. The deceased was crossing the line m a waggonette, and could not get out of a rut between the rails. The approaching train ran into the waggonette, and Mrs Summers was thrown on to the rails, and ran over. A batch of twenty prisoners, lately arrested under the Outlawry Act* for aiding and abetting the Kelly outlaws, were brought up at the JBeechworth Court on the 10th. Thirteen were again remanded for eight days, to obtain the attendance of witnesses for the prosecution, . who are principally Con-, stables out after the Kelly gang. Six others, viz. ; Perdins, Delaney, Woods, Mullens, and two Stewarts, were discharged, the charges against them being withdrawn. Very unhealthy sympathy with the Kelly gang prevails throughout the Beechworth district. Benjamin Gould, who was brought up at Euroa previously, charged with being a cooperator of the gang, was committed for trail. The question of want of employment again cropping up ; and a memorial is being signed by working men for a presentation to the Governor, asking the Executive to open more ipublic works. ■.->■ -. A gentleman named Travers, of Queensland, has been murdered by natives m the northern territory, while travelling with stock. • ; A large body of police have just returned from the 'search for the Kellys unsuccessful.