Australian Telegrams.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1681, 8 July 1875, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

SYDNEY.

JulyS

, The Government has arranged with the -A.B.N. 00. for four additional trips to San Francisco and back with the mails, pending i the operation of the permanent contract. After a heavy debate, Mr Parkes' resolu- ; tions for the adoption of the Committee's r/port on the removal by the Colonial treasurer of £250,000 from the Bank of New South Wales, waa negatived by 30 to 35. / The Land Bill is still under consideration i of the Legislative Council. Satisfactory reports have been received | from the pastoral districts. The increase of flocks is unprecentedly large. Extensive preparations are being made for the Philadelphia Exhibition by the Commissioners. The steamer St. Osyth has arrived from Melbourne. Heavy gales were experienced at the beginning of the week, with a tremendous sea. Vessels arriving at Newcastle were unable to enter*the port. No serious casualties are' yet reported, except that the ships Ben Nevia and Result, bound for Newcastle, are ashore at Broken Bay ; The schedule of V. F. Cape, broker, deceased, has been iiled ; liabilities, £23,000; assets, £254. A North German ship showing signal R.D.B. bound from Hanover to Wellington was spoken on May Ist twenty-five days out. ' ■ . ,' . Late heavy rains have caused floods in the Hawkesbury and other rivers, but the weather cleared before- any serious damage was done. At Goulbourn snow fell for five hours. The breakwater at Wollongong has been damaged by the gale. Four concrete blocks each weighing twenty-five tons were washed into the sea. No steps,have as yet been taken in regard to the visit of the Australiam team of cricketers to New Zealand. The official reports of the several goldfields at the Palmer are favorable. The miners, generally are earning good wages. The population is i orderly,, provisions are ample, but dear, and the general health is good. There is great activity amongst the reefs, and machinery is daily expected. A good many of the sluicing claims are yielding handsomely, hut many of the lately-arrived Chinese are scarcely making a living. The blacks are exceedingly troublesome, and have killed several cattle, and also attacked the mailman. The public finances continue in a most satisfactory position. The large surplus of

■ *?* revenue on hand has induced the local bankers to address the Government on the advisability of doing all its business with one bank. Mining matters progress steadily, all the feverish excitement having died out, ftjid^ been succeeded by more substantial devejroSxt, ment than what prevailed during the "mining? 1?' *jf mania." . / „!*" ■ Bail way extension is going on satisfactory, though somewhat retarded by the very iuferior character of some of the material imported from England. Sir Arthur Gordon and a portion of the officials of Fiji have proceeded to their headquarters After being formally installed as Governor of the new. colony, his Excellency intends makiDg a short cruise through Polynesia in one of her Majesty's ships, and will probably visit New Guinea. Monetary affairs are quietly recovering the effects of the recent disturbance. Capital ia plentiful, and the policy at the banks liberal. A miner fell down a seventy-feet shaft in Reed's Gully, Parkes, and remained there for twenty-four hours. After he was taken out he lived twenty minutes. An inquest has been held, and a verdict* of accidental death returned.