AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 3190, 11 December 1878, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(Perss. 'Tararua,' at, the Bluff.) (PER PRESS AGENCY.) , Melbourne,' December 5. Mr Berry leaves on the Embassy at the end of the month, • ' ■K,; The Commissioner of •Public Works, speaking the/other : niglit,'said Black Wednesday was tbe most glorious day the sun ever shone on in tho .colony;. * The Contagious Disease 'Act passed byParliament, by the Go'ver- 1 nor. ' 'v.- • Ji;/ .• -J- • It has transpired that t|e vacant judfje-". ship has been offered and declined. V The fines of £500 imposed on David and £50 on Ireland, in the embracery casesi have been paid bytboth ; prisoner's who are confined in Melbourne goal. - The celebrated stallion T Panic died on Saturday. Nothing further about the bushrangers. All traces appear to be lost. The police found the horses of the murdered men and some charred reins and saddles, but nothing has been seen of tho Kelly gang. • . The Lord Harris team of Gentlemen Cricketers have arrived at Adelaide, and play-there on Thursday weok, tho same day as the Australian Eleven play Melbourne. A new steel paddle-wheel steamer, to carry 1000 passengers, is to be built for the Bay trade, The seamen's strike.at Sydney is causing some inconvenience, as few of the. boats of the'Ai'S.NV Company aro now running. . Rust is prevalent in many parts of the colony. Every prospect of a hot summer. i

(Per 8.8,' Australia.') _ The Melbourne cable contract has been signed, but the date when reductions in Press, and 'Government messages come into operation is not fixed. The Melbourne team selected to play tbe returned Australians are Alexander, Allen, Campbell, Elliot, Gaggin, Groube, Hastings, Kendall, Maule, Major, McGammon, Palmer, Slight, Tennant,Woolf; emergency, Tiinnock. There have been burglaries in twenty private suburban residences during the month. Queensland news from the Mackay reports James Martin, seaman of the 1 Heather Belle,' Sydney, killed. Also, a party in tho' Mystery' murdered. At a public meeting it was resolved to invite the Mayors throughout the colony to. invite weekly subscriptions tor the anti-Chinese strikers. Great anti-Chinese demonstration at Newcastle. Strong guards of police on arrival of the steamers. Martin Enright, killed by a fall of earth at Mudgee, unmarried, has friends in Otago. News has been received, via Queensland, from Mackay to the efieot that Renton'slog states that a seaman named Martin, belonging to the brig' Heather Bell,' of Sydney, was killed on November 3rd, and the' Mystery' party were killed on November 9th. Captain Inmann sailed along the shore and landed, but failed to discover any traces of the party.