AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4560, 5 December 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

— + — [Bt TsiißenuPH.] (Per ».s. Australia, via Auckland.) A CRIMINAL'S END. VALUE OF SYDNEY PROPERTIES. Sydwby, Not. 80. Great excitement is being caused by tho elections. There is a general impression that Government will not secure a majority in the new House. The criminal Cunningham was executed at Goulbourne on Wednesday. He was quite callous to the end. He assisted the blacksmith to remove bis leg irons, and cursed the Queen horribly to the last. No clergyman was present. Some valuable city properties were offered for sale on Nov. 29. A property at the oorner of Pitt and Sing street was passed in at £31,000, and Hoffman's Btore in Pitt street, at £46,000. Operations on the Austral were suspended, owing to a cablegram received from London that the Board intended pumping the vessel out by hydraulio process. A meeting of the Church of England Clergy passed a resolution in favour of open air preaching to the masses where noceesary and practicable. The amount owing by Saber and Company in this colony is about £6000. MKLBOUBNE. Sir William Jeryoiße IB now on a visit to the Governor. The University has appointed five new professors. Sir William Jervoise and Mr Joseph Clarke have been banqueted by the Council of Trinity College, in recognition of their magnificent donations. ADELAIDE. Mr J. H. Angus has cold some of his northern runs to a company, the price paid being from £300,000 to £350,000.