Late Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4512, 21 June 1883, Page 3

Late Australian News.

Melbourne, Jane 11.' **•-!• The Bedmond brtftbirs'afe lecturing in f "Melbourne. The 'attendance is meagre, ( ' and there is no excitement.. .■,','.'• ' Tenders have been called for the new - , Prince's Bridge* hut on being opened they were found to be greatly in excess of the. engineer's estimates, and none were ac- . cepted for the present... [•„ , .:, ,<' • < - Langlands' Iron Foundry; Company, ' hare just completed an extensive order for mininjr machinery (£ldfiOO\ for India. Protpecta of farther trade-are ▼isible. - <; ' Cases for compensation arising, out of the Hawthorn Railway accident are being heard daily. It is expected the total, cost , .of the accident will be unprecedentedly heavy. i ~ Sir W. J. Clarke has promised £3000 towards the cost of the Clarke Buildings at Trinity College. Mr Joseph, ClarkV bad RiTen £6000, and with £1500 from other «o«rc*»8, thi» will practically cover, the coat of completion. i Jtfr George QtiffF 0 a" slnrte^ ? moTe- -.. nient to solve theitlißiousTduratitn diffi- ; , eolty, by giving religious it.atrnction to children after school hours; and the Vovettent having been wholly successful, tbe«xa!nple ■»* beii| followed in other pfcow. " .' .' :«'-. ':<0 ' The Argtis has anotner leader advoottjß^lfrlVopeny's proposal fora colonial exhibition in London. "" . .; SYBf et, June 11. ■'■-A. telegram received frow ;Normanton, Queensland, states -that Hunperford, whose explorinc companion (Walter . Clark) was deserted by him, and subsequently killed and eaten by blacks, has arrived there and been received by the tlwnipeople with public marks of disap- , MohMlttß.'' .Mr Geo.Ernest Morrison, who recently walked from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne, has left Cooktown with the view of proceeding to New Guinea to lex* plore the recently annexed territory. He hat determined to have no' European com panions, preferring to organise a party of natives. T»e expenses of the expedition will be borne by the Melbourne Age. Oapt. Kennedy, of the steamer Hauroto, report! that he saw the reflection of the new electric light at Maoqoarie Heads, a distance of 69 znilea at sea. " The New South Wales Cricketing Association cannot see their way to send a team to New Zealand. The matter is m abeyance at present- ,: