LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 6

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

0 — [The subjoined telegrams, dated January 11. were published iu the Daily Times of Friday : —] MELBOURNE. Mr Anthony Trollope is visiting Tasmania. The race between Penticost and Bedford was won easily by the latter. Messrs David Masterson and Co. have failed. Their liabilities amount to £45,000. 1 Shocks of earthquake were felt in the Ovens and Murray districts on January 4th. Two deaths from snake-bite have occurred at Daylesford. Professor Halford’s antidote was unsuccessful. Mr Doyle, journalist, is dead. A man named James Selby Bennett, from New Zealand, has poisoned himself. Mr Morrison, manager of Hustler’s reef, fell down a shaft 300 feet deep, and was killed. The Yan Yean water supply is ineffective. Wool is fully sustaining the last rates. Flour is at £l2 to £l2 10s. New Victorian wheat is at ss. 6d. Oats are at 3s. 3d. to 3s. 7d. Tookey’s shares are quoted at £lB 10s., but nothing is doing in them, SYDNEY. The weather is intensely hot. Some very rich stone is being got from Paxton’s claim at the Tambaroora reefs. The whaler Oscar was attacked by a whale when between Tasmania and Newcastle, the animal causing the ship to leak dangerously. The cricket match between the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne was won by the former by nine wickets. The Prince of Wales Theatre, two hotels, and other buildings have been burned. The loss is estimated at £40,000. The walls fell, and injured several persons—three fatally. Mr Fitzgerald’s carriage factory has been burned. It is reported that Mr Webb’s steamers will not return. A labourer named Boyd stabbed himself, and cut his own throat. A relief fund, in aid of the sufferers by the fire at the Prince of Wales Theatre, has been initiated. ADELAIDE. The Government propose sending horses to the North for the purpose of running an express along the unfinished portion of the overland telegraph. The line is extended 1000 miles to the north of Adelaide. The hot weather is impeding business.