AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2554, 28 November 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegbapii] (Per Si. Manapjuri at the Bluff ) Melbouhnz, Nor. 21. The English cricket team proceed upcountry to-morrow (iunJaj). On Monday they will be the guests cf Mr \V. C. Clarke, at Huperts "Wood, preiious to going onto Sydney. A dctern.iaed attempt at euicide was made by Margaret Burg'S3 on Saturday last. She threw herself into the Yarra, but Constable ifcKer.zie succeeded m rescuing h=r. A man, name unknown, was found with his throat cut m Albert Park. It is suppled to be a case of suicide. A youth named Moore, was Bent to ths Bank wi?h a deposit by Henderson, of Lonsdules'reit. He paid m £150 m notes and cheques, but kept £66 m gold. He gave himself up to the police on Saturday, aad was remanded. Comn;od;ra Ermine has conveyed through tho Govc-rnor an acknowledgment to the Dockyard authorities of the successful manner m which H.il.S. Nflson hid been dooked. Mr Jameson, Jlanoger of the Commercial Bank at Ifeathccte, was driving between Hecthcnte and Sandhurst on Friday, when a man baled him up, pulled him from the buggy end ttruck him violently, rendering him insensible. He then rded his pockets but overlooked £303 m bullion which w&« m tho bii py, also 1100 unsigned bsnk no'ci. On Friday niglit an extremely brilliant aurora was visible. Tic fireiLen turned out, bdisving there wm a large fire. The Victerian Rifle Association meeting at Williamitown commences tJ-day. Teams from Victoria, New South Walos and Tasmania take part m the Intercolonial match. Stduet. The Eieutive Council bave decided m the c:ee of Dunn, tentesco:! to death for arson, m c nney.i''n wit'i the fire by which Mrs Wriabt It's*, her life, to commute the sentence to one of hard bbor f^r life, tie first three je.-.TB to be served m irJn3. Tim Austrnlian Kleven srrived on Saturday and were warmly welcomed. It is supposiil the Governor will grant a dissolution of Parliament, and if bs writs will be ifsnod immediately, and a new Parliament meet after Christmas. The trustees of the Art Gallery have purchased Leighton'e pictura " Wedded," exhibited at this year'a Academy, Bbisbake. The tteimer Devonshire arrived at Bundaberg on Friday with a quintity of Cingalese on board. About sixty .Europeans attempted to oppo>e tho landing of tho coolies, who drew luives, and tho white men then ran away. Afterwards the Europeans perjuaded the natives to leave work, but on one coolie and oce white ringleader being arrested, affairs became quieter. Adelaide. Tho Nairne railway s'.rike has virtually ended. Some hundreds of men have returned to work. Xhe laborers' strike at Port Adelaide is dleo nearly over, all the employers but tho South Australian Stevedore Company having acceded to tho terms demanded. A man named Buiton, who had been missing from Border Town for iome days, vias found m a water hole m the centre of the town, from which the principal water supply was drawn.