AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Issue 02, 7 October 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Tho Argus advocates thn desirability of pickling beef for tho .Knglish market, oving to tho low prices of cuttlo at pro-* sont ruling in Viclorin. JJronao coin can now bo obtained nt tho Molliourno mint. Tho dopty mnsiorunnounoes thnt hu is prepared to supply coin on npplieation. Mr Tlumas Spnrgoon proacliod hi? farewell uormon in tho Albert street B.\\ttitsfc Churob, Molbourno, on SeptoinluM* 10th. Tho olim'ch was donHely crowded, and tho sermon wus listened to with attention. Tho Colonial lnsuranco Compnnv is about to establish au n^oncy in Melbourne. At tho Melbourne Supreme Court on

tho 2nd instant, Hichnrd It. \io\ov w,is ordeied to pny costs and n. fine of £10 to the Crown for preparing n conveyance of innd, for which ho was paid, ho not boinjr a barrister, nn attorney, a solicitor, nor i\ convoynncor of tho court. Tho trans* notion took placo so far back as 1871. '^M Malcy had been at ono timo nn Attorney, hut lind been struck of tho rolls for forgery. Tho following further items of Victorian news wcro received by the. City of Now York, which arrived from Sydney nt Auckland rocontly :— Tho Victorian loan of five millions included ono million for tho purchaso of the Hobson'a Buy railway } two hundred thousand for parliamentary buildings and now law courts ; two hundred thousand for State schools ; two nnd half millions for new railways. Tho lust general election cost £9100 nnd the census £12,400. Tho Argus correspondent at Sydney telegraphs on August 29th us follows:— Tho sensation nt Tatlersall'a to»inght was a spirited demonstration in favour of Auckland for tho Melbourne Cup. Commencing nt hundreds to four, ho rapidly udvancod to hundreds to six. In thn doubles on the Epsom Handicap nnd Metropolitan, Jack nnd Chieftain wero tho fnvouritios for the former, nnd Woo Ilimds, Strathoarn, nnd The J>i?an J> tlio latter. Potor Simplo is most in favour iv the doubles on the jumping races.