LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 622, 10 February 1879, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, January 29. The proceedings m Parliament have been dull. The Chinese Restriction Bill limits the number by any one vessel, and imposes a tax on all arriving by sea or across the border. The Supply Bill contains an item of £50,000 for the Exhibition buildings. The City Omnibus Company have offered to lay a tramway from the Redfern railway termins into the heart of the town, if the necessary rights are secured to them by legislation. The preliminary work on the Exhibition buildings is being rapidly pushed on. Over 400 men are engaged upon the work. The contractor has telegraped to London for eight instruments to supply the electric light, to enable the men to work at night. In the meantime experiments are being made with the oxyhydrogen lights. Applications for space continue to pour m, and it is probable the building, after all, will be too small. A horae thief named Bill Gardiner, has been captured by the police after an exciting chase of upwards of 100 miles. The principal interest this week has centered m the cricket match with the English team. The Englishmen were regarded aa weak, but the game was very open. The first innings of each aide were very even. C. Bannerman played a ball on to his pad, and thence to the wicket without scoring. In the second innings he got his hand split between the fourth and little finger, m stopping magnificently at mid-wicket a desperately hard hit ball. Tindall, Garrett, and Allen were all more or less crippled, and Evans was suffering from a severe cold. Colonial prospects looked bad, with 225 to get. However, they did it. At the close of the match £38 was collected for C. Bannerman. At the regatta the champion outrigger race was a surprise. Trickett was evidently not m condition and apparently gave up, coming m 100 yards behind Laycock. Trickett next day issued a challenge to row over the champion course for £200, and on the following day Michael Rush accepted the challenge previously issued by Laycock. The Bulli lock-out has ended. The conference showed that the employers misconceived the action of the men. The latter retain their Union independently of the Newcastle Union, and 14 days' notice is m future to be given on either side of ceasing to work or of discharge. Brisbane, January 29. The Government geologist reports that the Barrum coal field is capable of yielding 1000 tons a week, the coal being m equal m quality to Newcastle. He recommends the construction of a cheap railway. The newspapers demand the dispatch of a war vessel to avenge the -murder of Ingram by the natives of Brooker Island, m the Calvados Groop. Melbourne, January 29 The indignation meeting against M'Laren was held at the corner of King and Flinders stteets. He hid m a publichouse watching the proceedings from a window. He was however seen and brought out, and after being denounced by the chairman, a rush was made for him, but the chairman shielded him from harm. Mrs Charlotte Collins, a young widow m easy circumstances at Carlton, suddenly left her friends on the 21st December. It seems she went to the establishment of Mrs Evans m Fitzroy, where she engaged a room at £2 a week. She said she was suffering from an abcess m her side. Mr Crook, surgeon, attended her, and on the 22nd of January she died. Rumors that violent means were used to procure abortion caused the coroner to order the exhumation of the body m order to hold an inquest. The Victorian Government will cordially co-operate to render the Sydney Exhibition a success, and will place £2000 on the estimates for expenses' The Press have been requested not to publish the movements of the police who are pursuing the Kellys. Sir George Bowen willleave Melbourne on February 18. Lord Normanby arriving on the 26, no administrator of the Government will be appointed. The Rev. John Eggleston, Wesleyan minister, Brighton, died on the 23rd ult. He labored m Australia since 1839. The shock killed the widow three days later. The Union Bank has declared a dividend at the 'rate of 16 per cent, for the past half-year ; £20,000 is added to the reserve fund, and £7466 carried forward. The certiorate of Captain Gray, of the ship ' Seagull, has been suspended for 12 months, for causing a collision with the schooner St. Kilda on December 27. The police are proceeding against him also. The Government remit 30s rent for every £1 expended by Crown tenants m the destruction of rabbits. Captain Balton of the Imperial penal department is visiting the colonies Fourteen persons are still under arrest as suspected confederates of the Kellys. David Blair has written the history of Australasia from its earliest discovery to the establishment of self government. The Argus accused him of plagiarising the historical accounts of Victoria published m its columns. Tenders have been accepted for the erection of the Melbourne Exhibition buildings at a little over £60,000. Cecilia Brett, a widow, was crushed to death by a train at the Footscry railway station. There is a great accumulation of wheat m the North-western district awaiting transit. Governor Bowen, on behalf of the Government, sends a handsome address to the King of Tongo, acknowledging his generous conduct m receiving the Victorian seamen wrecked on the Island of Kao. The railway freights for agricultural produce are to be re-arranged to benefit distant settlers. A board has been appointed to enquire into the escape of Weiberg, the gold robber from the detectives. Arrangements are m progress to save 12 hours m the transit of mails from Melbourne to Adelaide and vice versa. Adelaide, Jannary 29. An order has been sent to the War Office for 600 snider carbines for the use of the boys learning drill m the public schools.

The captain of the German man-of-war now m harbor, the Ariadna, states^ that when m the Pacific he heard of theY Rev. George Brown's action m punishing murdering natives. He went to New Britian and Duke of York Islands, and made a searching investigation into the whole of the circumstances of the case, both from the missionary and natives side, and the conclusion he wasrforced to come to wa3 that Mr. Brown acted judiciously, and that his wholo conduct m the affair was commendable m the highest degree. He has written to the German Government to the effefct, and also recommended his Government to communicate his opinion on Mr. Brown's proceedings to the British Government. He considers Mr. Brown's action will be of vast benefit to civilisation, Christianity, and trade throughout the whole Pacific. — Auckland pauper. . .