LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 224, 24 February 1874, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[The Mount Ida Chronicle contains the following late news from London and Australia.] London, February 9. Gladstone's resignation is not confirmed, but it is inevitable. The death of Baron Meyer Rothschild is announced. Numerous Home Rulers are elected in Ireland. Of the 537 elections over, the Conservatives have gained 80 seats, and the Liberals 38. Jenkins, the author of "Ginx'sßaby," has been elected. Obituary.—Jules Michelet, the historian ; David Strauss, the German author.

Melbourne, February ,14, One morning lately a small box containing an explosive compound was sent to Maxwell Reynolds, the well known carrier, who was in the act of opening it in the presence of his old partner, English, when it exploded. Reynolds was killed outright, and English was severely injured. The police are endeavoring to trace the mystery. The Buckley will case is proceeding. The Agent-General says he will prove the will a forgery, and that the claimant, Maher, forged it. Maher comes from Wagga Wagga. Duffy declined demonstration at Sydney. EJe goes Home in April. Blondin is performing in Melbourne. In the cricket match, All-England Eleven versw twenty-two Bendigo, the latter made 90 in the first innings, and 165 in the second ; the Eleven made 154 in the first innings. The Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill has passed the Committee of the Sydney Assembly. The Hume mystery continues unsolved. Todd, of Adelaide, states that Hume had not time to do all he asserts, and proofs are adduced that he never met Warburton's party. A girl named Coleman, while tending sheep at Tamworth, New South Wales, was violated and afterwards choked. The perpetrator is still undiscovered. Advices from Palmer River are satisfactory (?). The country is flooded, and the wet weather has set in. About 1000 diggors are on the ground, and as many en route. Provisions are frightfully dear, and no meat is obtainable.