AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 577, 9 May 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

—o— The Alhambra, Underwood, master, left Melbourne on the 26th of April, at 3 p.m., and arrived at the Bluff on tho 2nd instant, at 7 a.m. She brings the following items of news : Sir George Boweivis to be invited by the President and 4 Speaker of the Assembly to a banquet. A tender for tho construction of tho Castlemaine aud Dunolly railway for tho sum of 37000?. has been accepted. A Communist prisoner escaped from the Orme, a French transport ship which put up here short of provisions, and the authorities refused to' arrest him. The’Alardus, a German immigrant ship, bound to Queensland, put in Here. Thfi passengers were in a most deplorable condition, and many deaths had occurred. All that landed were quarantined. Rabat has been committed on another charge of altering bills of from 100?. to 400?. A gas and water pipe foundry is being established. g A shock of carthquaqe near Melbourne lasted for twenty seconds. The Government propose to allow drawbacks on all dutiable goods via the Murray. The antagonism between Mr. Parkc-a’and Mr. Francis is the Border question is virtually shelved. A memorial has been sent to the Privy Council on behalf of Mount and Morris. An application to wind up the Polynesia Company has been refused, A magnifloent’presont has been 'sent to Prince Bismarck by tho Germans in Victoria. • There has been a great panic in Sand* hurst. Hustler’s stock has sustained a heavy fall. It is rumored [that a 'strong'[Opposition has been organised against tho'Governmcnt and that a vote of want of confidence will be moved on the Address, the reasons assigned being the failure of the loan and the breaking down iuthe educational machinery. It is surmised that the New Zealand four per cent loan is a f failure here, the bank which is floating it have nothing to communicate on tho subject. A man stuck up three women in a vehicle near Clunes. They courageously resisted, and the man decamped. cable;;telegrams. London, April 24. The wool sales have opened, and out of 200,000 bales which have arrived, 6,500 (mostly Victorian) have been offered. Tho attendance was [large, and tho biddings spirited at February] prices. “ Sir Rogor,Tiehborne ”Js on his trial two hundred witnesses arc present for tho prosecution. Tho Russian campaign against tho Khivans has commenced, the Russian troops having gained a trifling advantage. In the House of C omraons Mr. Gladstone said that tho correspondence with Russia embodied a negative pledge that Affghanistan was outside the sphere of her influence in Asia ;secondly, the settlement of the Affghanistan boundaries ; thirdly, a pledge that England would use her moral influence to restrain tho Amcor from aggression. The Sultan of Turkey is suffering from brain disease, and is under restraint. A dynastic change is imminent. Earl Do La Warr has committed suicide. The Russian movements continue to cause much irritation in England. Tho Eastern Australian Mail Company’s prospectus has been issued. It provides for a monthly service to Queensland and Sydney, via Singapore. Tho capital is 150,000?. One steamer has boon purchased, and two others chartered. Queensland pays an annual subsidy of 20,000?. Mornington won the Epsom Spring Meeting City and Suburban Handicap, Cremorno was second, and Bertram third The Pope has recovered from his late dangerous illness but his present exact condition is kept a secret. The French revenue for tho quarter ending March is 050,000 beyond the estimates. Beer riots occurred at Frankfort, in consequence of the brewers having raised the price of the article. Several breweries were sacked, and the destruction of property was very great. In suppressing tho riot fifty persons were killed and wounded by tho military, and a Targe number of arrests were made. The evidence as to the loss of the Atlantic has proved that there was a deficiency of coal, and general bad management. Tho Captain, s certificate has been suspended for two years. A criminal information has beep filed against Mr, Plimsoll, M.P., fora libel contained in his work on tho Mercantile Navy. Mr. Norwood, shipowner, is the prosecutor. Affairs in Spain are in a deplorable state, and an insurrection in Madrid is imminent Sir James and. Lady Fergusson left via Brindisi on tho 18th, for New Zealand, via Melbourne, The prospectus of tho Anglo-Anstralian Steam Navigation Company, for a service via the Capo, is announced. The Company’s capital is one million and a quarter, i Six steamers, including tho Great Britain, are to be employed. They are to make tho trip in forty-two days. The Great Britain is to be taken at a valuation, A great Australian gold mining company is announced with a capital of 200,000?.

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