AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3421, 9 December 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Pub City of New Yohk.)

(Per Pbess Agency.)

Sypkex. December 3

Scott, alias Moonlight, applied for ft postponement of the triat on the ground that the proceedings of the Eellys had greatly excited the public feeling against him. ...

Richard Thatcher made a declaration accompanying Scott's affidavit, "setting forth that he had just come from Victoria and found the public unduly incensed against bushrangers. From New Caledonia deplorable news has been received of the Huon Guano Islands, sixty-six men employed being left there without provisions except birds' eggs and turtles. Tbe manager made a journey of one hundred and ten miles in a small boat and got a temporary supply, and came to New Caledonia for.a further relief, when he found the Company's cheques stopped, and the Government of Caledonia prohibited the removal of anything from the Island owing to arrears of rent. Intelligence was subsequently received that the company had despatched a vessel from Sydney with provisions. Two of the transport service, who had been embezzling Government funds to tbe amount of £800, went to a house a few miles from Noumea, enjoyed themselves to the top of their bent, and then went together in the bush and blew their trains oat. , I?ive runaway convicts, bound to Australia, were overtaken. One jumped overboard, declaring he would never be taken back. A letter from Samoa says that the war is caused by Europeans scheming for land. A garrison of German soldiers is expected to be planted on tbe island to protect German interests. The ketch Lillian capsized near Sydney. George Gold, who was aboard, was drowned. He bad a brother at Oamaru, New Zealand. Meiboxtbne, December 4.

A deputation of unemployed waited nn Mr Berry, Premier, and pointed out the difficulty of finding work. Mr Berry promised to see what could be done. France has applied for 75,000 feet of space at the Exhibition. Articles have been signed between Edwards, representing New South Wales, and Woodhouse, representing Victoria, for the pedestrian championship of £100 a side—-twenty-four hours* match—-to bo walked in Sydney.

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October Ist is definitely fixed for the inauguration* of the Exhibition. It is probable a premium of 50 guineas will be offered for words of an inauguration cantata, and one hundred guineas for the best musical composition. Mr' Berry has refused to provide endowments for municipal bodies beyond next September; leaving the new Parliament id express an opinion to the Mimi! ls r EW SOUTH WALES. A fatal coach accident happened near Maitland. The driver fell off- in a fit, and the horses bolted, the coach capsized, killing a young lady, and seriously injuring several others. A large fire at Greenfield destroyed property worth £10,000. The township was saved with difficulty, 12 houses being burnt. . Alexander Stewart, member.for East Sydney, has accepted the Agent-General. ■Blip.-: ..:•'■ ,»: :■ .. J ■" ; ,/■ : A Bill to legalise the race totahsator on racecourses was introduced.

THI ■Wellington Chronicle, under the bead of "Who is to Blame," reviews Sir Julins Yogel's financial policy, and concludes Sir George Grey's Government continued the extravagant public expenditure of their predecessors, although, they had previously promised to cut it down. It was their misfortune to come into office when grand ideas and excessive borrowing, initiated by Sir Julius Vogel, were beginning to bear their fruits and yield their natural results—financial collapse and intolerable taxation. During the present session Sir George Grey went ont of office and Mr Hall came in. Major Atkinson was again to the fore as Colonial Treasurer. He told a terrible financial tale, enough to frighten all the money lenders on the London Stock Exchange. He said there was an actual deficit of £957,000, and his remedy for this financial malady was a crushing system of taxation, which he debated with military precision and sternness, instead of having the common sense and justice to cut down its bloated establishments, •nd curtail the expenditure on unrethunerative public works, and utilise the land fund as a source of revenue. The Hall Government see the profits of tradesmen and the industrious classes daily diminishing. They are spending public money to find employment for thousands of unemployed men with which Vogel's policy has flooded the colony; they encourage local industries with tho right hand and damage them with the left. Who is to blame for this? Why Sir Julius Vogel in the first degree, Major Atkinson in the ■econd, and Sir Geo. Grey in the third. There is a fourth party to blame, that is all those members who have supported a policy which has landed us in our present monetary difficulties. Electors of New Zealand would do well to remember this when ironhearted tax collectors call at the time when public works are coming to an end. *'?•;■;■ ■" ■ : ■

The brave men dio but once, while the red-haired youth with the black mousttche usually djes onco every forty-eight hoars.