Show AnstraUau News San Francico 23 Arrived tha steamer City of New fork from Syd I ey via Honalulu Sydney DdC 28It is expected that owing t miuiBenal relations the work of leciilatioji l Nil not commence befoie i six weeks ft The session will be short simply a Snarcial one In NW b i uth Wales tho transit of Venus nbservations were a failure owing to the weather The British party in Q leenslbnd was equally unsuccessful The weather has been very hot The wheit crops now being reaped are unu mIy heavy the grain being of good qua ity and quito free from rust There ill a great dearth of farm hands and high wsgps are being paid The wool clip is rather light and slightly below the average aver-age The steamer New England in the Clarence River trade struck a bar in xarence River on the evening ot the i7th and became a total wreck Heavy eels washed completely over her Few persons were saved A number of the isssengera and crew managed to reach the shore in boats but others left clinging cling-ing to the shrouis were washed off There were fiftythree persons in all aboard and about sixteen were drowned The Queensland government has concluded con-cluded a contract with Henry Kimbre representing an Australian syndicate for the construction of a transcontinental railroad from Charterville to Point Parker Par-ker to be finished within seven and a hlf years under a land grant system 10000 acres at Chartorville to the Gulf watershed and thence to Point Parker 1 LJ 0jO acres per mile |