AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 4498, 9 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

—♦--•- - [By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Eeceived Dec. 8, 1882, 12.45 p.m. MELBOURNE, Dec. 8. At a later period of last night's sitting in the Legislative Assembly the adjournment of the House was carried, and Mr Munro's motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to investigate railway administration will be treated as a vote of want of confidence in the Government. Much angry altercation occurred during last night's debate. The Government have announced that a board will be appointed to assess the amount of compensation to , be awarded to sufferers by the Hawthorn railway accident. The steamship < Rotomahana Bailed at midnight for New Zealand. Eeceived Dec. 8, 1882, 2.10p.ra. '■■ Dec. 8. . The P. and 0. Go.'s Assam, with the in-ivnrd-Snez mails, which left London on the 3rd November, has arrived at King George's Sound. 1 deceived Dec. 9, 1882, 1 5 &.m. i " ,• ./;■;:.;>. ' -.jL ■. •■• . Dec. 8. ; Sixty claims have been sent to the Government by persons who were injured in the recent railway accident. All the patients are improving ii; health,

Tfift cricket^match|between:fthe English Eleven; andv|wenty-two of l^aitland tas resulted in^a victory for the^Englishnien in qrii]|nnings with ls runs tospare. vThe loljjw'ing wlere the};s[cores,:^^hglißj||&r^ in^gs, s l^sj^Mait)and^. fir^ innings^S f* second innirig9j,9l. Received Dec. 8,i882, 9.50 p.m. New Zealand wheat., remains at 4s 3d. ; -New Zealand oats have Advanced *tqi3s 6d.^ "Sugar Co.'s No. 1-pieces, per tori, £^6. .Parkej.has.goneisto^llawarra to assist the Hon. James "Watson, the IColdniariTreasurer, in his contest for that ! Polling takes plaice to-morrow, and there is great excitement over the. election, j