AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3236, 5 February 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, Tuesday.

Governor Bowen lays the foundation of the Exhibition building on the 19th.

Surgeon Crooke, who attended Mrs Collins, regarding whose an inquiry is proceeding, has had an attack of apoplexy.

Sydney, February 3.

Owing to the heavy rains, the match English y. Bathurst was not played out - tjkt The body of Captain Fraseripburnuon board the brig 'Iserbrook,' weeks ago, was recovered on Saturday W the vessel being pumped out. It was almost unrecognisable. ||]l^ It is rumoured that Mr of Tasmania, ■will be our new Governor.

Wilson, alias Smith, was arrested on board the 'Francis Thorpe,' from London, on Saturday, for fraudulent insolvency at Hull.

Sydney, Tuesday.

The French ironclad ' Victerieuse' •went through torpedo practice while exhibiting the electric light on Monday night. Thousands were attracted to -witness the spectacle.

Brisbane, February 3.

Mr Thomson, Minister of Justice, has been re-elected for Ipswich by a majority of 14.

The prize essay has been awarded to Carl Eieldberg, a popular journalist.

An aboriginal, Captain Piper, has been arrested for a murder committed in 1866.

Melbourne, February 3.

There is a scandal in -the Reform. League Office, which is alleged to have accepted £100 to get a person appointed magistrate. Other corruption in the Land Office is alleged.

Adelaide, February 3. Breadstuff's are unchanged. Cooktown, Tuesday.

There have been great gales along the eastern coast. Several vessels have returned dismasted.