LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 198, 26 August 1873, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

—♦— AUSTRALIAN. The English Cricketing Team will arrive in "Victoria in December. Anti-immigration meetings have been held throughout South Australia. The year's gold yield of New South Wales has decreased by 15,000 ozs. Sir George Bowen's economy is severely criticised by the Melbourne Press. Several murders are reported from the country districts of New South Wales. The Victorian Assembly rejected the proposal for a free English cable message for the Press. Mrs Daly, widow of a Melbourne Police Magistrate, has been arrested for concealment of birth. . Bishop Perry, Anglican Bishop of Mel-/ J bourne, will permit marriage with a deceased wife's sister. There is a large body of police at Stawell to preserve order between the jumpers and jumped. Several assaults have been committed. There was a grand Roman Catholic jubilee in Melbourne on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Bishop Goold's episcopate. The Bishop was presented with a gold watch, a carriage, and pair of horses. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN. London, August 7th. Victor Hugo is dying. The cholera has appeared at Berlin. Prince Arthur's betrothal to the sister of the Princess of Wales is contradicted. A minority of eighteen members opposed the allowance to the Duke of Edinburgh. The English, French, and German fleets will prevent excesses by Spanish insurgent ships. A railway accident occurred at Wigan, in Lancashire, and fourteen persons were killed. The Bishop of Winchester has been killed by a fall from his horse. The Bishop of Ely succeeds him. The Pope received a hundred French deputies, and assured them that the Blessed Virgin would re-establish a Kingdom in France. Seventy Danish emigrants for New Zealand are now in a hospital ship on the Thames at Gravesend. Four cases of cholera broke out amongst them, and two deaths occurred. a Dr Featherston is attending them. They are 1 ' kept strictly isolated. Dr Kenealy, in defending the Claimant, described Sir Roger as of depressed habits and imbecile mind, which explained the absurdity of many of the Claimant's statements, while the conduct of the latter throughout was inconsistent with his being an impostor. Parliament was prorogued by Commission on the sth. The Queen thanked the members of both Houses for making prompt provision for the Duke of Edinburgh, and trusted that his approaching marriage with the Grand Duchess of Russia will prove a new tie between the two countries. Wool has slightly declined. Foreign orders are slack. Antwerp sales opened on the sth, and showed a penny advance. Balme and Co., report combing sorts 2d to 3d above the price paid at the close of last series. Clothing Id to 3|d, scoured clothing barely |d better. Lambs is a shade dearer. Cross-breds are unchanged; 50,000 bales remain unsold. The sales close on the 16th. A reconstruction of the Ministry has taken place. The Marquis of Ripon and Mr Childers retires. Mr Bruce retires on receiving a Peerage. Mr Bright replaces Mr Childers ; Mr Lowe replaces Mr Bruce ; Mr Gladstone holds the Premiership and Chancellorship of the Exchequer together; Mr Dodson, Financial; and Mr Arthur Peel, Parliamentary.