AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 919, 18 July 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, July 11. Two children have been violated at Sandhurst, and the brother has hung himself through disgrace to the family. His suicide and locality were revealed m a di'oam. The Council notify their intention not to l'evive the Payment to Members Act. The new Electoral Bill gives a vote to to female ratepayers. Morley Carrier, ex-Mayor of Sandridge x has been committed for trial for perjury. The present Mayor has been lined for using abusive language. A woman at Sandhurst was blown to pieces while drying gunpowder at a tire. The Roman Catholics protest loudly against the Papal Bill being interpreted by priests, and declare that by forbidding the laity 'to belong to benefit societies, the loss by withdrawal will be £100,000. Smart and Phillips, executors of Jacobs' will, have been committed for trial for making away with the property, and leaving the children of the deceased to be arrested by the police as neglected infants. In the Budget speech, the estimated revenue was nearly £4,250,000, and the expenditure £4,172,000. The ironmoulders' strike continues. A million loan is proposed for a rail way to Gippsland. Sydney. Mr Hay is the new President of the Council. The decrease m the gold yield is £120,000. The most "of the new loan was taken up at- par. £69,000 were taken at 95 to 95£; the minimum was 95. Adelaide. . The half year's revenue amounts .to £4G4,000. Brisbane. Brisbane will be the terminus of the Torres Straits line. Hobarton. The Government hud a majority of four on the no confidence motion. The Ministerial position is weak. Port Darwin. A newspaper is projected. Mining prospects arc good.