AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3172, 19 April 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydnby, April 18. Flour £11 7b 6d; New Zealand wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 9d; oats 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Sailed: The s.s. Hero. : Cumberland stakes were won by Chester; Le Loup, 2nd; Wellington 3rd. Chester won easily by a length; time, 3min4sseo. Mblboubnb,. Aprillß. Dr Bryan Doyle, from New Zealand, to-day charged several women with a robbery of eleven hundred pounds. The pase was remanded owing to the Doctor's intoxication in Court, for which he will be prosecuted. The B.s. Hero has sailed from Melbourne for Sydney. . Mbiboubnb, April 17. An Argus scholarship for engineering has been founded at the University. The proprietors gave £1,000. : The mail advices state that Mr Berry desires a moderate compromise, but, unless a settlement on a reasonable basis is effected in England, he will return and rouae the country. ... Mr. Michie retires from the AgentGeneralship of Victoria on April 24. Melboubne, This day. Sailed: Claud Hamilton. ——. ». (Special to Auckland Stab.) Federation of Colonies. The mission of Lord Loftus, the new Governor of New South Wales, to Australia, is undoubtedly Federation. Mr Burke, Undersecretary, was unable to accept the Governorship. The Americans intend to make a great representation at the Sydney Exhibition. The Zulu War. London, April 17. Colonel Wood, C.8., repulsed the 4,000 Zulus, who on March 12th attacked the escort, consisting of two companies of the 80th regiment escorting a convoy to Luneberg. Col. Wood recovered the ammunition and guns, and buried the dead.