AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2759, 20 March 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(DY P;IECTRIC TKLEGRAriI.— COPYRIGHT). Svn.VEV, March 18. During day-light to-day a robbery at the IHurstville branch of the Bank of Australasia took place. The manager of the ban!? had placed £141 in a bag for the purpose of bringing it into town, and after locking the door of the bank was standing ontsido awaiting the train, when he waa attacked from behind by a stranger who aimed a desperate blow at him, snatching the bag and making off. Aβ soon as the uianagcr recovered from the effect of the blow, he gave chase after the robber, and succeeded in securing him with the money in his possession. The man was given into the custody of the police. The Victorian Government lias given permission to a number of irrigation trusts to draw water from the Murray River. Sir Henry Parkes, Premiqr, is protesting against it being allowed on the ground that it is a breach of inter-colonial obligations. The Government have decided to speud the sum of £26,000, for the purpose of establishing mining schools throughout the colony, and £50,000 in the erection of Technical Colleges, in the same interest. Mkujouknk, February 18. In consequence of complaints from newspaper proprietors in Victoria of the injustice they suffer in having to compete with papers published in New South Wales, which had the advantage of beiug delivered free of cost throughout the colonies, the Postmaster-General of Victoria has invited the Postmaster-General of New South Wales to a Conference to consider the newspaper postage rates. Large bush fires are raging iu the neighbourhood of Camperdown, Flinders, andi great, "destruction has resulted to grass and fencing, ■ March 19. Arrived : Rotomahaiia, sailed : fllauapouri. Admiral Scott, in the course of his interview with the Minister of Defence, aaid he had no objection to local officers joining Imperial warships for short periods when accommodation could be provided for them. The Hon. J. Bell suggested that a larger number of colonial cadets should be received in the navy and also that a sham fight be arranged on the arrival of the five Australian cruisers iu August. Brisbane, March IS. Extraordinary landslips have occurred at Rosewood, a station on the Southern and Western Railway, 35 miles southwest of here. Large areas of land moved bodily. Numerous houses were dc- ' stroyed. Several farmers have been ruinud, and fissures from 10 to '20 feet deep rent, in the earth. The residents of the township fled in terror, but uo fatalities are reported. A bottle has been washed ashore containing a. letter dated October last, that the barque Kudby, Captain Mitchell, with a cargo of coal, was iu a waterlogged condition and the cargo on fire. At a public meeting held last night, it was decided to open a relief fund for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent flood. Over £1000 was subscribed iu the room. .■■■■•