AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3350, 25 June 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Peb Pbess Agency.)

Sydney, June 19, Sailed: 'Clifton,' barque, for Port Chalmers via Nowcastle. 'I he debate- on tho Land Bill is further adjourned in tho Legislative Council. The Executive Council commuted tho sentences on George Peckham and John Lowis, who wore convicted of wife murdor—the first named prisoner to fourteen years' penal servitude. Waterhouso, master of tho steamer ' Prince of Wales,' was_ fined ten pounds for a breach of the marine resolutions by allowing his steamer to follow the InterColonial Boat Haco. Two men at Sydney were fined one shilling each and costs, under tho Act of Charles tho Second, for clipping a horse on Sunday. Iho cutter 'Basilis' has been wrecked off Cornelia Hcach. No lives were lost. Queensland. Father Fcortecbini, who was stabbed by McGolderick, is recovering. His assailant is committed for trial. A vote of want of confidence in the financial policy of tho Government was negatived by 23 to 20. Mjhijotjhkb. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of tho Kelly sympathisera who purchased arms ana ammunition in Melbourne for the Kellys, Parliament meets about tho fifteenth of July. Adelaide. The Commissioner of Public Works, in a roply to a deputation, promises to give local ironmasters priority in tenders. A woman has died from fright by tinkettling on tho night of her marriage A verdict of manslaughter against the tin-kettlers was returned.