AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Western Star, Issue 143, 3 June 1876, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stevenson’s case still absorbs much public attention. Presentments against five of defendants, including Stevenson and Wilkinson, have been filed, and will come on for hearing at the Criminal Court next month, A second trial in the celebrated Learmonth and Baillie case is now proceeding at the Supremo Court, The contract for furnishing 13 rooms of the new Government House amounts to nearly £i2,000. John Roberts, jun., will play his first game of billiards in Melbourne. A man has been arrested for the horrible outrage perpetrated on Mrs. Teeco. She has identified him. A project is afloat intended for the establishment of sea-water baths ; capital £25,000. The Philadelphia rifle team left for Wimbledon by the mail steamer. The amount required £IOOO, was raised by private subscriptions.in addition to a similar amount from the Government. Talbot, the tragedian, has returned in the Northumberland. - Nothing has been hoard up to March of : the barque which took the Victorian exhibits to New York.: . i. The convict Daffy, for a criminal assault on Ilia own daughter, was hanged at Castlemaine. A telegram, from Hill End states that a crushing of 55 tons of stone at Creighton and Baird’s claim gave 170 oz. of gold.; Mr. James White, M.L.A., the defendant in the black-mail case at Adelaide, has been struck .off the Commission of the peace. . The New South Wales Government is engaged in framing regulations for carrying out a system of immigration. , : At Stawell an armed party of five men visited the North and South Wales Company’s machine, at Deep Lead, and after bailing up the enginedriver, proceeded to rip off the copper-plates and carry them into the bush. The engine-driver managed after a lime to soqnd the engine whistle, which alarmed the robbers, and they decamped. The plates and other articles removed have been recovered. The gang are strangers to the town, and have been concerned here .in two late burglaries, besides other outrages. ; •It. is reported that the, N.S.W. Government favour the proposal of a cable via San Francisco, over the route,surveyed by the Tuscarora. Mrs. Scott-Siddons has made a, hit in Lady Teazle at Sydney. Miss Alice May’s Opera Bouffe Company hag loft India on route for Batavia, and is now playing at Singapore. A .ride nisi for the compulsory sequestration of tho estate of Messrs. Hall and Forbes has been made absolute. In a pigeon-flying match at Sydney, the winning birds'did, 134 tjiiles—from Goulburn to Sydney —in 103 minutes. j r A’.ho Schooner Mary Ann Christina has been totally wrecked at Clarence Heads. The crew saved. , ■. The Pacific Mail subsidy has passed. During the discussion the Postmaster said ha believed the contractors were anxious to change the route to Auckland or the,Bay of Islands. Mr Parkes, adverting to the probability of a change of route as suggested, said it would all bo in favour of Now Zealand. . Mr Burns said the Government had no intention,to propose a change, though the contractors expressed a desire to withdraw. Mr Parkes, the leader of the Opposition, carried his resolutions for the expenditure of surplus revenue in a comprehensive system of immigration and public works. , The Prospector’s cargo of New Zealand barley sold at an extreme figure. • ■ ■ ■ The National and. New Zealand Insurance Company lose about £1,500 through the recent fires. A fire occurred at Sandhurst, doing considerable damage. The insurance on the three late fires, it hae been ascertained amounts to £82,000. .