VICTORIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3085, 17 May 1881, Page 3

VICTORIA.

A telegram from the Agent-General states that the Board of Trade advises the steamer Ferret to be detained.

Tenders tre being called for four new lince of railway.

The Governor has received no official intimation of the visit of the detached squadron. The Princes being midshipmen the Admiral will have to be considered before any entertainments can be tendered the Princes. The addresses of welcome will have to be presented at Government House.

The Council has finally dealt with the Reform Bill. Sir Charles Sladen gave a resume of the amendments, and hoped that they would be found acceptable to the Assembly. The country may now hope for the settlement of the question. In the Assembly on Wednesday the Chief Secretary declined to appoint a Commission to inquire into the decrease of population as shown in the census. HOB ART. The census shows the population to be 116,000, being an increase of 16,000. ADELAIDE. By the census the population is 186,000 showing a falling off in the old districts, except in the centres of population near Adelaide. QUEENSLAND. At the Nebo rush there is a population of three hundred, which is inreasing. All men working are getting gold. Several nuggets have been found.

Mr Gresley Dukin has submitted to the Government a railway project to connect Brisbane, Sydney, and Adelaide. The chief feature is the land grant system, the line being constructed by private capitalists. A successful banquet was given at Cooktown to the Governor on Friday.