AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 9140, 17 June 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

I •>••. , ■ |(PEE HOTOEUA AND WAKATIPU ATULUFJ?.) | ''. '' Melbourne, June 8. |_ .Tlje Government continue economising in every direction. A number ol in the Lands Department received notice last week, and it is expected that the services of a number more will be dispensed with shortly. Postal advices from St. Louis, 21st April, Bay that the sugar crop will be about 120,000 tons. The statement in the London Daily Telegraph that the Government of Hongkong intends shipping Chinese criminals to Australia having been brought under the notioo of the Governor, he promised to communicate with the Imperial authorities on the subject. The Melbourne Frozen Meat Company received a telegram from London announcing the purchase of a refrigerating machine, which will be shipped immediately. At a meeting held on the 4th it was resolved to form a company with a capital of £25,000, to establish a hospital for paying patients. The Exhibition Executive Committee has accepted tenders for dSOO chairs, at a cost of about £2000. The successful tenderers ;are five well-known English firms in Melbourne. The chairs are to be of American, Austrian, and Victorian manufacture. „ . June 9. The Government are about to introduce a bill'tb abolish pensions. A deputation of fellmongers attributed the depression in their trade to the Stock Tax. Mr Service said he could make no statement in anticipation of the Budget, although he thought the tax a bad one. • The report of the Chinese Protector shows that the Chinese are decreasing. It is now estimated that they number only 13,000. ' The selectors in the Mallee country are in a deplorable Btate. They want to abandon their holdings and select elsewhere. The body of Constable Mulhane has beea found in the Yarra. He was on duty at the wharf, and the watchman heard a splash, but there is nothing to show how he came into the water. Foley, the larrikin, who deliberately assaulted the Chinamen,' has been remanded, the victims being incapable of appearing. A constable, charged with robbing a man in a house of ill~fani?, has been acquitted. One of the Eellys 1 black trackers has been found in a misorablo state in Melbourne, through drink. He was ordered to be sent to his friends. The action of Paternoster v. the exDirectors of the late Provincial and Suburban Bank, for inducing him to take shares by misrepresentation of the condition of the Bank's affairs, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for £250. It is anticipated that it will be tue precursor of several similar actions. Attention has been called in the Council to Major Smith's proceedings in disposing of his house and property at Ballarat by art union. It is proposed to hold a ball in the new Exhibition hall, which will hold from 8000 to 10,000 people. South Australia, June 9. The debate on the second reading of the Electoral Bill is proceeding. It provides for an increase ia the number of members of the Assembly from 46 to 52, and splits up the large northern districts into four electorates. A man named Partington drifted to sea in an open boat from Port Vincent on the-7th instant. A cutter was despatched in search of him, but returned uusucces&fu].. New South Walks, June 9. The A. A. Company withdraws from the associated collieries, and is preparing to resume work. Ct has made a proposal to its former omployes, offering, it is understood, the district rates provided they quit the union. 5731 immigrants arrived in the colony dunug 1879. ' The butchers at a meeting resolved to close on Sundays,