VICTORIAN NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 562, 24 January 1873, Page 3

VICTORIAN NEWS.

—o Madame Arabella Goddard, tho renowned pianiste, is about to visits the Colonies, and leaves London in March. A very large portion’of tho cable messages is credited to; Victoria. Two shipmonts;of’goods for the Loudon Exhibition have been made. The Rosario has returned from a cruise and reports that she visited Santa Katrina and Isabel, where canoes had been sunk, and the natives are hostile. Tho tin miners at Stanthorpo have struck for higher wages. There was a destructive fire at Salisbury, ; near Adelaide, tho produce of ten farms having been burned. There have been severe'floods'in tho north of Queensland the country being flooded. The Intercolonial Confsrenoe at Sydney is delayed until the arrival of the west Australian delegates in the mail steamer. Sentence on Mount and Morris, for the Carl murders, is postponed till next Monday. Hamburger and Oppenheimer, merchants have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud, and wore sentenced to pay a fine of 100/. The four prisoners from the Kate Grant brought from Fiji arc tho master, owner, an two of the crew. The strike at Newcastle of the coalminers continues, and vessels are leaving in ballast. Ihe total jield of gold in Victoriaduriug 1872 was 1,317,102 ounces, being 14,000 more than previous year. The Polynesia Company are endeavouring to have the annevation of Fiji question brought before the lot si-colonial Conference. An unusual number of violent deaths arc reported from Sydney. At Rockhampton a Mrs. North has been remanded on a charge of murdering her paramour.