LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2283, 13 September 1877, Page 3

LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Heaxt FiixtTHE.—At Brisbane (Quociislnnd) ft raeetingof the creditors of. Messrs. Ciarlr, Hodgson, and Co. has been held.'- Liabilities',- £90,000 ; and assets £30,000. Their'colonial debts (£60,000) are principally owing in Melbourne, and the balanoa (about £30,000) on Home account. 'The failure was oiused by heavy losses on the shipment of produco to England. It was .resolved to sequestrate the estate.

The Victorian Commissioners havo applied for two thousand feet extra space in the Paris Exhibition, and. the Qaeensland Government propose to 'vote £2,000 for the represenfation of that Colony at the came Exhibition:

• The Town Clerk of Warrnarabool (Henry Thomas Read), has absconded. The Melbourno papers stafco he has robbed a local building society lo the extent of £1,200. It is believed he has gono to England in the steamer Wharapoa. The defonce of Briabane (Queensland) Sir William ' Jervois estimates wiU necessitate an expenditure of £45,000, irrespective of the cost of a gunboat, and an annual sum of £16,500 for a volunteer force of 1 370

- The Hon. James Eeid Sootfc, of Hobarfc Town, was found dead in his study. Pbogbkss.—A trial has been made on the Melbourne and belong line of the experiment of lighting railway carnages with gas. The result proved in the mam very satisfactory, though some further improvements in the reflectors and means of affording ventilation will he necessary before the change can ba generally introduced.

Two miners, named Kobert Catehpole and' Eoberfc Yong, hare beea killed near Ballamt, by a fall of earth in their olaim at Derwent Jack's, Yon<» leaves a widow and & large family of children ; Catehpole a wife and ono child.

Disloyalty.—A grosser breach, writes the Camverdown Chronicle, of the rites of hospitality than that witnessed atColac lately, we never remember to havo heard of. His. Excellency the Governor and his Ministers were invited to a public banquet, and a large number of those present showed their want of respectforthe former by groaning at and " boohooing" the latter.