AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 233, 28 April 1874, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, April 14. Brisbane official telegrams from Cooktown state that several score of miners rushed the steamers for free passages. The police were required to clear the ship. About 30 assaulted the police. An excited mob, numbering 1000, watched the affray from shore. Some rushed aboard, unshipped staging, cut off shore communication. After a struggle, three ringleaders were arrested, and order was restored. Heavy rains have occurred at the diggings during the last eight days. The creeks were flooded, and roads unfit for traffic for some time. A nugget, weighing seven ounces, has been obtained by some Chinamen at Charleston, Queensland. Mr O’Shanassy has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council, and will contest Kilmore for the Legislative Assembly. Mr Todd has had an interview with the Treasurer in reference to the reduction of cable charges. The Government are favourable to the proposition. Robert Hamilton, for many years clerk of the course at Flemington, died to-day from an overdose of laudanum.

Mi' Ivett committed suicide by laying Ins bead on tbe railway line. The train-cut his head in two. The following official telegram was received by the Colonial Secretary f rom Queensland:—Telegram from police magistrate at Cooktown : “Please make public, with a view, if possible, of stopping the present rush. Three days’ rain almost without intermission. Sucli immense rain that large numbers of people are at Cooktown (nearly 4000), and can neither get forward nor back. The weather prevents those determined to reach the Palmer from going ; and want, of money compels many to stop who would rather return South. The Government will try every means to stop people from coming here, and crowding into a place with nothing to do, and which they cannot get out of. There are more people than circumstances justify.”