LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 196, 12 August 1873, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN. Cases of infanticide are almost of daily occurrence in Victoria. Father Finn has been stuck up by bushrangers in New South Wales. In Victoria, the hours of voting have been extended from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A motion to give votes to the police was lost in the Victorian Assembly.' The new ministry in Adelaide intend carrying out a large scheme of immigration. Madame Goddard (the pianist's) concerts in Sydney have been an unprecedented success. Perfect arrangements have been made in London for inducing immigration to New South Wales. A Port Darwin telegram states that the miners say the Northern Territory is a great reefing country. Nine petitions have already been presented to the Judge of the newly-established Divorce Court in Sydney. At Sandhurst, a man named Rea *• sbeen convicted of rape on two little girl., each but. three years of age. A weekly paper, called the Defen lev, has been started in Sydney, with the object of sunnorting the Volunteers. The head resident doctor of the Melbourne Hospital has been compelled to resign, for being out after hours, and another of the doctors has been dismissed. A negro named Wallace, for rape upon a respectable married woman in Victoria, has been sentenced to death. The woman was onlv three weeks past her confinement. Assaults upon children continue to be po numerous that it has been proposed to appoint a mixed commission of ladic s and medical men in Melbourne, to devise a remedy. Captain Whitcombe. o' the barque Z n car', was brutally murdered in the Adelaide roa ls'eid by five men put on board by the polioj from the Gaol, preparatory to the sailing of the vessel. An old man named Mugg midge has beui murdered on the Bathuist road, N.S.W. The supposed murderer s a young man win was in his employ. His remains have bjeu found chopped up and burnt. A very dense fog occurred in Melbourne a few davs ago. The mail-steamer Baroda was delayed in coming up, and two tugs were sent in search of her. Business was entirely suspended in the city for two hours. Mrs Shannon, who cut her own throat after poisoning her four illegitimate children, is recovering. Through having overdosed the children with laudanum, they all recovered except the baby. A verdict of wilful murder of her infant has been found.

Leases having been issued to the Sawell claimholders by the Government, a collision 's expected with the jumpers. The solicitor for the latter lias been assaulted by the miners, and it would not be surprising if bloodshed occurred.

EUROPEAN

Air Gladstone is unwell. Severe storms have taken place in the country districts in England. The Pope at a Consistory again threatened Freemasons with excommunication. The French Assembly have passed a vote of confidence in the present Ministry. The harvest in England is plentiful, and agricultural prospects are encouraging. A Now Zealand Land Improvement Company, with a capital of £500,000, is announced in London. A company has been formed with a capital of £150,000, to work a gold mine in New South Wales. The prospectus has been issued in London of the Victorian Gold Consols Company, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, to work four mines in Victoria. The Queen is expected to visit St. Petersburgh, to witness the Duke of Edinburgh’s marriage with the Grand Duchess Marie, only daughter of the Czar. The outbreak of cholera in London has created much alarm in Great Britain. The Government and local bodies are endeavouring to mitigate the pestilence. £25,000 a year has been granted to the Duke of Edinburgh by the House of Commons, on account of his marriage, and £6OOO a year to the Duchess if she becomes a widow. Marshal M‘Mahon, in a message to the French Assembly, answers for the preservation of order, and requests that no demonstration may mark the departure of the Germans. He says peace is of the first necessity to the nation. Desperate fighting has taken place in Spain. Don Carlos has a force of 110,000 insurgents,, who hold Northern Spain. On August 1 they were burning Seville with petroleum, and with a squadron of five gunboats ami two frigates, were bombarding Almeria.