LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 124, 26 March 1872, Page 6

LATE AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The items given below (which avo dip frmfl the Dally Times) were telegraphed from thS Blufi to Dunedin on arrival of the nviß steamer from Melbourne ; Melbourne, March 11. 1 A mining speculator at Ballarat, nameflj IToneyman, levanted, leaving heavy liabi® ties. He is said to have gone to New Ze® land. Hancock, who was sentenced to death fr|B committing a rape on his own daughter 9 Ballarat, has had his sentence commuted fourteen years’ imprisonment, the first tin® in irons. In the race for the Australian Cup Salad® and Dutchman ran two dead heats. In tfl final run oil’ Saladin Avon by half a neck. Robinson, Avho Avas one of the principa® together with the two seconds, in the la® fight at Sandhurst in Avhich Robert Tayl® was killed, have been committed for trial (9 a charge of manslaughter. The ship Calcutta, from London, has towed into harbour dismasted. Mr Donahoo, solicitor, pulled the Mr George Baton Smith, barrister, the precincts of the Court. The Judge it® prisoned Mr Donahoo for some hours contempt of Court. The Omnibus Company projAo.se to street traimvays in the city. The schoi® will probably be opposed. Another action has been brought Dr Blair for indecently assaulting Miss Clu®[ pelt some years since. Fearny has been committed for trial at Coroner’s impiost for the murder of Marks® the Fitzroy Gardens. The evidence disdos® by inference the grossest immorality. Conn has been committed for trial for murder of a Avoman near Nindeyer. Ackroyd, a Sheriff’s clerk, has been mitted for trial on a charge of public moneys. Rain is much Avautod. The Botany B® reservoir contains only one month’s suppldH The elections are over ; the Governmt® is Avoak. Typhoid fever is spreading amongst t® ; prisoners in Parramatta gaol. The body of a man, Avith the skull smash® 1 in—supposed to be the steAvard of the —has been found Heating in the harbour. I - Brisbane.^® Two more survivors of the Ncav Guinea®* pedition have reached CardAvell, bafl® Avonnded. Tiic survivors of the Avreck i'RR been attacked by natives, and the captl '■ and two others are known to have b®B* murdered. 4d ai - e still missing. The steamers Zenoni and Governor all, manned by volunteers from Sydney men belonging to H. M.S. Basilisk, togetfl® l witli the schooner Peri, are out in the missing men belonging to the Ncav Gui®| expedition, avlio left the Maria on a raft. ®r Adkt.aideßßi Rush fires arc very prevalent, Destruction is being caused by a locusts. RH 3 Judge Gwynne is seriously ill. gft ; ’ The body of Mr Hayes, schoolmaster, been found in the river Torrens. lie is B° pccted to have been murdered. Launcesto®® Mr Harris’s stores at Westbury have liggm burned. The damage is estimated at