Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-23
AUSTRALASIA,

By the steamship City of New York,
which arrived at San Francisco yesterday,
we have later dates from Australasia
During the north the New Zealand
Ministers have been busy throughout the
colony, and there are now signs that they
are preparing for the session of Parliament
which is to commence in May. The Hon.
Mr.. Hall, the Premier, reached Auckland
on the Sth of March, and was followed in
few days after by the Hon. NJ. Rolleston,
Minister of Lands, Justice and Immigra-
ton.
Business during the month has been dull,
especially in the southern provinces of
New Zealand, and there have been COM
plants from various quarters of want of
employment. In the circumstance s the
Government has sent home instructions to
the Agent General that the immigration
system hitherto in operation should be
largely modified. The only immigration
skilled in agriculture and possessed of some
capital.
A NATIVE Parliament" assembled at
Drake, New Zealand, April 18th. Orakei
is small native settlement, about four
miles from Auckland, where live the rem.
nants of the tribes who formerly owned
the Auckland district under the chief Paul
Tuhaere. These people, with their kins-
men from Kaipara, and some Ngapuhi
chiefs from the Bay of Islands district,
have gathered, to the number of about
200, to discuss subjects interesting to them.
Thomas Birch, who was a passenger
from Dunedin to Auckland by the Union
Steamship Company's vessel Penguin, ex-
pired suddenly on board, on the 18th of
March.
On Thursday, March Attn, destructive
fire occurred at Tamaki, New Zealand.
Commissions are sitting on the public
works of New Zealand, in order to decide
on the roads of railway to be completed,
and to report as to the efficient and econ
omical working OF the present lines. A
Commission is also sitting to consider the
best means of promoting the industries of
the colonies.
The net land revenue of New Zealand
for the quarter ending the 3lst of Decem-
Der last was ESQ, 037 9s Sd. OF this sum
f27, 457 Is Sd was the result of the land
sales, f37, 7SS Is 81 obtained for depastur-
ing licenses, rents, etc, and f793 los Sd,
miscellaneous receipts.
Splendid rain has fallen all over the COL
ony of Victoria,
Mr.. Duffy is appointed Victorian Minis
ter for Agriculture, without salary
Under the new rule, females are being
admitted to the Victorian University.
E. Ward, NJ. ?. for South Australia, in
tends asserting his privilege of freedom
from arrest for debt within forty days of
the assembling or propagation of Parlia-
ment, by bringing an action for heavy dam
ages against Wicklin and Swinden, who re-
Gently had Ward imprisoned.
The Northern Territory, South Austria
liza, police found the tracks of Holmes
murderers and followed them for two days,
till driven back by swamp country, pre-
venting any further tracking on horseback.
They tried to proceed ON foot, but could
not carry the provisions, and the South
port blacks refused to assist the police on
the plea that they were afraid. Imme-
diately the country is dry enough the police
will start again.
Given an audience that reads nothing
outside of the catechism and the marriages
and deaths in the daily paper, and the
clergyman who cannot knock Darwin, Mill
and Huxley much higher than the mythi-
cal Gilderoy ever flew his equally mythical
kite must be wofully poor specimen of q
minister.