AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1333, 29 October 1884, Page 4

AUSTRALI AN NEWS.

(Per.s.s.'Tajawera, at the Bluff,) Per Press Association. Melbourne, Oct 21. Mr Justice Williams has made an order allowing the removal of Mr Delves Broughtoo, master of the /Melbourne Mint, from Oremorne Private Asylum, where he his now confined , to England- .■-..,.. y Beisba^e, Oct 21. a : The libel action brought by Mr Hod^kinson, warder of the Palmer goicifields, against Mr Miles... the Minister of Works, claiming £10,000, has been withdrawn, each paying his owr, costs. Four thousand. five hundred and siity-eight tons of sugar have been exported from Queeusi.ind since the commencement of, the .season. ... . The captain and officers of the labour schooner Hopeful have -been committed' for trial f r kidnapping. The second mate and boatswain, chafed with the murder of two natives, aie also cpmmit(:ed. "% ADEIiAIDR, Oct 21. News fiom Bairpw^s Creek states i hat the natives are v very trouble^ some, and are assembling m large bodies near the station, • The South "Aus'tra r iau Institute" o? Surveyois has applied to the. Govei'v>me/.\t .asking that the surveyors' ' licenses of ptber coTonie.3 may . be|BccepteddnlSputh "conditionaUy on those colonies reciprocating tbe arrangement. The steam yacht Cushie D,oo has been exploring the Cambridge Gulf. an.cl has found^plenfcy of good couu- .. try. V ■'■ *■* ;■- V \ V ' ■•-• J- SYDNT£,-Oct 21. "- The steamer Madjus has been wrecked off Port Macquanie, and has completely broken up. .The*e is to cbanceof saving anything. , Dr Von. Lendenfield, of rhe Linpseah. -Society, of New South. Wales, has succeeded m discovering the nervous system; Aof sponges, theieby proving their animal nature beyond dcubt, v