Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-05
AUSTRALIA.
Items of News Brought by the Delayed
Steamer.
From Australian exchanges the follow,
ing news is taken

Steamer.
From Australian exchanges the follow,
ing news is taken:
NEW SOUTH WALES.
J. Louis G. Krefft is dead.
A geological station is being established
by Baron N. de Miluho Maclay, the Rus
sian naturalist at Watson's Bay. Land
has been granted by the Government for
the purpose, and a building is to be erected
for the use of naturaists who may come to
Sidney to study the zoology and botany of
Australia.
The estimated population of the Colony
on December 3lst, 1880, was Males, 49,
46l females, 339, 063. Total, 40. 524.
| The suburban tramways are progressing
| in construction.
The agricultural and pastoral pros
poets are good.
Captain Romano, of the Italian war
vessel, scouts the absurd rumor that
sailor was hanged at the yard-a for draw
| ing knife on another sailor.
TIE Commissioner for Railways init
mated recently that the new loan for neces-
sary works would be called for shortly
The cabmen had picnic on February
| 18th, and there was procession of 500
cabs-a mile long. Two thousand persons
were present.
The vital statistics show that the DEATH
rate last year was lower than for several
years past, in proportion of lis for every
thousand of population.
| At Cabinet meeting on February 2lst,
| the South Australian Border Treaty was
ratified. The Ministers have had under
consideration the proposal to refer the re-
| form bill to a committee of the two
Houses, but they consider it premature
Constable Patrick Walsh, of Wongar-
| alta, has been committed for trial, for burg
larry at the Royal Hotel.
| The whole cost of the Exhibition Build
ing will be 1929, 600, but less the receipts
and sale of the annexes, will be about
f252. 600. This leaves f33, 600 to be made
u,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
The report on lunatic asylums will short
ly be published. 1t shows an enormous
increase in the number of insane people,
and that South Australia has now larger
percentage than any of the other colonies.
| r. E. N. Twopenny, promoter, with Jules
| Joubert, of the Adelaide Exhibition, writes
to the Register that he has received prom
| ises from many leading firms, especially
British, now exhibiting at Melbourne,
to send manufactures of the highest
class, and also to send to England for
| special exhibits. Also, that if official sane
tion is given to the proposal, undoubtedly
| nine-tenths of the statuary and pictures of
| one nation will be sent here.
QUEENSLAND.
The Duke of Manchester was entertained
at Dalby on February 10th, and expressed
himself well pleased with everything he
had seen.
Five escapes from New Caledonia landed
at Point Lookout, Stradbroke Island. half
starved and nearly naked, and walked
| toward Dunwich. Steps have been taken
to arrest them. Four OF the new Caledo-
MIA escapes are convicts-two for military
offenses, one for an attempt to murder and
one for theft. The other is a deserter.
The correspondent of the Townsville
Standard. writing from Herbert river,
| states that two white men and ksnaka
black boy went to punish the Lacks for
trespassiug on potato gsrden. Not ind
ing the blacks, and mesting With lhree
gins. they shot them and burn' their
bodies, making the husband of one .sist.
The Date OF locality is rot given