AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 286, 4 May 1875, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, April 20. The news of Wilson Gray’s death was received with great regret all over the Colony. Beckers, a free selector, has been murdered at Terrace, by a neighbor named Merton, who had a quarrel and stabbed him to the heart.

South Melbourne lost the Cup Cricket Match. There were 5000 spectators present and great exfiteraent. The scores were : Slight, 20, Cooper, 0. Blackham, 43, Allan, 36, Midwinter, 19, English, 0, Conway, 13, M'Gann, (not out) 9, Heather, 1, Tinsley, 3, Woolf, 2. It is intended to found a permanent fund for the purpose of assisting shipwrecked seamen and vidows.

A polioman has been committed for trial at Hotham for stealing a bottle of brandy from a hrtel.

The gdd export for the year amounts to 197,288 ounces, against 346,557 ounces in the corresponding period of last year. The Mint charges have been reduced. The sale rateinow paid for gold is the same as that paid by {he Bank of England. The captain of the steamer Ellora went mad on the voyage round from Sydney, and would iikist on steering for Western Point, as a short cut to Melbourne. Eventually Oaptain Sandish, who was a passenger, had him arreied and confined. Four revolvers were founi in his cabin, l/ladame Rastoul has written a letter to the Argus, and states that the reason why hei husbard and the other Communist prisorers escaped was to make known to the wold the treatment they had received in Nev Caledonia, where, by the process of staivation, ihey were condemned to slow deaih. i.

After a trial which lasted three days, O’Pirrall, the Lands Office defaulter, has beer found guilty on three charges of embezzlemmt, and a fourth is now proceeding. Seveal law points have been raised by Mr Irelaid, prisoner’s counsel, and will be considerd by a Tull Court.

Mr Michael Byrne Carroll, one of the membra of Hie Legislative Assembly for Ararat stands committed for trial on two charger of embezzlement. He is in gaol, the heavy tail required—£4ooo— not being forthcoming

Whai appears to be a brutal murder has taken pace at Bet Bet. The body of a miner named Frederick Lenzleman, who had been missed : or some days, was found by the police ii a shaft 60ft deep. The evidence given at the inquest on the body pointed to the fact hat the deceased had been thrown down thehole after being stunned'by a blow from a pck-handle ol some other weapon. The wife »f deceased, and a Chinaman named Ah Katt lave been committed by a Coroner’s Jury for he wilful murder of Rengleraan.

1 Sydney, April 20. The R..H.S.S. Mikado has arrived at San Francisco, four days before contract time. The Brisbane Marine Board, in the matter of the wredc of the Gothenburg, attributes the loss of hat vessel in a great measure, to the heavy thods in the Burdekin and other rivers, and vlso considers that duo caution was not observed in navigation, no attempt, apparently, laving been made to sight Cape Bowlinggreei lighthouse, or Cape Upstart, The immig’ation authorities in England report that tin burning of the Cospatrick has had a great nfluence in checking immigration.